Neuromodulating compositions and related therapeutic methods for the treatment of cancer by modulating an anti-cancer immune response

ABSTRACT

Described herein are methods for treating a subject having or at risk of developing cancer administering a neuromodulating agent.

BACKGROUND

Cancer is still one of the deadliest threats to human health. In 2012, there were 14 million new cases of cancer worldwide and 8.2 million cancer-related deaths. The number of new cancer cases is expected to rise to 22 million by 2030, and worldwide cancer deaths are project to increase by 60%. Thus, there remains a need in the field for treatments for cancer.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The invention relates to the discovery that modulation of neurological signaling pathways can modulate an immune response and, e.g., can be used to modulate an anti-cancer immune response. Accordingly, therapeutic and pharmaceutical compositions (as well as veterinary compositions) comprising neuromodulating agents and related methods are disclosed herein for treatment of cancer. The invention also features methods of modulating an immune response or immune cell activities in a subject or in isolated immune cells.

In a first aspect, the invention provides a method of treating a subject with a disease characterized by immune dysregulation by administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of treating a subject identified as having a disease characterized by immune dysregulation by administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of treating a subject with a disease characterized by immune dysregulation by contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of treating a subject identified as having a disease characterized by immune dysregulation by contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of modulating an immune response in a subject by contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of modulating an immune response in a subject by administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of modulating an immune cell activity by contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of treating a subject with cancer by administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of treating a subject identified as having cancer by administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of treating a subject with cancer by contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of treating a subject identified as having cancer by contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the cancer is pancreatic cancer and the method includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator. In some embodiments, the cancer is small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and the method includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator. In some embodiments, the cancer is non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and the method includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator. In some embodiments, the cancer is melanoma and the method includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator. In some embodiments, the cancer is prostate cancer and the method includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator. In some embodiments, the cancer is breast cancer and the method includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator. In some embodiments, the cancer is glioma and the method includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator. In some embodiments, the cancer is gastric cancer and the method includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of treating a subject with a T cell-infiltrated tumor by administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of treating a subject with a T cell-infiltrated tumor by contacting the tumor with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of treating a subject with a T cell-infiltrated tumor by contacting a T cell in the tumor with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the method includes contacting an immune cell from column 2 of Table 13 with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent that modulates a corresponding gene in column 1 of Table 13.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the method includes modulating an immune cell activity.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the method includes modulating lymph node innervation, modulating development of high endothelial venules (HEVs), or modulating the development of ectopic or tertiary lymphoid organs (TLOs).

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell activity is activation, proliferation, phagocytosis, antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC), antibody-dependent cell-mediated phagocytosis (ADCP), antigen presentation, lymph node homing, lymph node egress, differentiation, degranulation, polarization, cytokine production, recruitment, or migration. In some embodiments, the activation, proliferation, phagocytosis, ADCC, ADCP, antigen presentation, lymph node homing, lymph node egress, differentiation, degranulation, polarization, cytokine production, recruitment, migration, lymph node innervation, development of HEVs, or development of TLOs is increased. In some embodiments, polarization toward an M1 phenotype is increased. In some embodiments, polarization toward an M2 phenotype is increased. In some embodiments, the activation, proliferation, phagocytosis, ADCC, ACCP, antigen presentation, lymph node homing, lymph node egress, differentiation, degranulation, polarization, cytokine production, recruitment, migration, lymph node innervation, development of HEVs, or development of TLOs is decreased. In some embodiments, polarization toward an M1 phenotype is decreased. In some embodiments, polarization toward an M2 phenotype is decreased. In some embodiments, the cytokines are pro-inflammatory cytokines, anti-inflammatory cytokines, or proliferative cytokines. In some embodiments, recruitment or migration is directed toward a site of inflammation or infection. In some embodiments, migration is directed away from a site of inflammation or infection. In some embodiments, recruitment or migration is directed toward a lymph node or secondary lymphoid organ. In some embodiments, migration is directed away from a lymph node or secondary lymphoid organ.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is selected from the group including a T cell, a cytotoxic T cell, a monocyte, a peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cell, a macrophage, an antigen presenting cell, a Natural Killer cell, a mast cell, a neutrophil, an eosinophil, a basophil, a Natural Killer T cell, a B cell, a dendritic cell, and a regulatory T cell. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is a T cell. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is a macrophage. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is a Natural Killer (NK) cell. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is a dendritic cell. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is a regulatory T cell (Treg).

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of modulating innervation of a lymph node or lymphoid organ by contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of modulating innervation of a lymph node or lymphoid organ, the method comprising administering an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In some embodiments, innervation is increased. In some embodiments, innervation is decreased.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of modulating development of HEVs or TLOs by contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of modulating development of HEVs or TLOs by administering with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator. In some embodiments, development of HEVs or TLOs is increased. In some embodiments, development of HEVs or ectopic or TLOs is decreased.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of modulating T cell cytokine production by contacting a T cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of modulating T cell cytokine production by administering an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In some embodiments, T cell cytokine production of pro-inflammatory or pro-survival cytokines is increased. In some embodiments, T cell cytokine production of pro-inflammatory cytokines is decreased. In some embodiments, T cell cytokine production of anti-inflammatory cytokines is increased.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of modulating macrophage polarization by contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of modulating macrophage polarization by administering an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In some embodiments, macrophages are polarized toward an M2 phenotype. In some embodiments, macrophages are polarized toward an M1 phenotype.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing the number of immune cells in a tumor by contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing the number of immune cells in a tumor by administering an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the method includes increasing immune cell migration or recruitment to a tumor. In some embodiments, the immune cell is a T cell, γδ T cell, Th1 CD4+ T cell, cytotoxic CD8+ T cell, B cell, macrophage, M1 macrophage, natural killer cell, neutrophil, eosinophil, mast cell, or dendritic cell. In some embodiments, the immune cell is a T cell. In some embodiments, the immune cell is a macrophage. In some embodiments, the immune cell is a dendritic cell. In some embodiments, the immune cell is an NK cell. In some embodiments, the immune cell is a CCR7+ T cell.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing immune cell homing to a lymph node by administering an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In some embodiments, the invention provides a method of increasing immune cell homing to a lymph node, the method comprising contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is a T cell, B cell, macrophage, or dendritic cell. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is a T cell. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is a macrophage. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is a dendritic cell. In some embodiments, the immune cell is a CCR7+ T cell.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing the number of CCR7+ T cells in a lymph node by contacting a CCR7+ T cell with an effective amount of a dopamine agonist.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing the number of CCR7+ T cells in a lymph node by administering an effective amount of a dopamine agonist.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the method includes increasing CCR7+ T cell proliferation. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the method includes increasing CCR7+ T cell lymph node homing.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of decreasing immune cell migration to a tumor by contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of decreasing immune cell migration to a tumor by administering an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is a myeloid-derived suppressor cell (MDSC), regulatory T cell, M2 macrophage, or immature dendritic cell. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is a regulatory T cell. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is an M2 macrophage. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is an immature dendritic cell.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing pro-inflammatory cytokine levels by administering an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing pro-inflammatory cytokine levels by contacting immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing T cell production of pro-inflammatory or proliferative cytokines by contacting a T cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing T cell production of pro-inflammatory or proliferative cytokines by administering an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the pro-inflammatory cytokine is interferon gamma (IFNγ), interleukin-5 (IL-5), IL-6, IL-4, IL-1β, IL-13, or tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα).

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the pro-inflammatory cytokine is interferon gamma IFNγ. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the pro-inflammatory cytokine is TNFα. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the pro-inflammatory cytokine is IL-13. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the pro-inflammatory cytokine is IL-4. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the pro-inflammatory cytokine is IL-1β.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing macrophage polarization toward an M1 phenotype by contacting a macrophage with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing macrophage polarization toward an M1 phenotype by administering an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing immune cell cytotoxicity by contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing immune cell cytotoxicity by administering an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the cytotoxicity is antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is an NK cell.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing Natural Killer (NK) cell activity or restoring NK cell lytic function by contacting an NK cell with an effective amount a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing NK cell activity or restoring NK cell lytic function by administering an effective amount a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing immune cell activation by contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator, wherein the neuromodulating agent slows or prevents tumor growth.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing immune cell activation by administering an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator, wherein the neuromodulating agent slows or prevents tumor growth.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing immune cell polarization toward an M1 phenotype by contacting an immune cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator, wherein the neuromodulating agent slows or prevents tumor growth.

In another aspect, the invention provides a method of increasing immune cell polarization toward an M1 phenotype by administering an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent selected from the group including a neurotransmission modulator, a neuropeptide signaling modulator, a neuronal growth factor modulator, and a neurome gene expression modulator, wherein the neuromodulating agent slows or prevents tumor growth.

In some embodiments of any the above aspects, the immune cell is a macrophage. In some embodiments of any the above aspects, the immune cell is a T cell. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is a dendritic cell. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is an NK cell. In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the immune cell is a Treg.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the pro-inflammatory cytokine is IL-1β, IL-5, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12, IL-13, IL-18, TNFα, IFNγ, MCP-1, CCL2, or GMCSF.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the pro-survival cytokine is IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-7, or IL-15.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the anti-inflammatory cytokine is IL-4, IL-10, IL-11, IL-13, IFNα, or TGFβ.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the cancer is gastrointestinal cancer, gastric cancer, melanoma, pancreatic cancer, urogenital cancer, prostate cancer, gynecological cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, head and neck cancer, esophageal cancer, CNS cancer, glioma, malignant mesothelioma, non-metastatic or metastatic breast cancer, skin cancer, thyroid cancer, bone or soft tissue sarcoma, paraneoplastic cancer, or a hematologic neoplasia.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent is a dopamine agonist, adrenergic agonist, nicotinic agonist, muscarinic agonist, serotonin agonist, glutamate receptor agonist, histamine agonist, cannabinoid receptor agonist, purinergic receptor agonist, GABA agonist, neuropeptide Y receptor agonist, somatostatin receptor agonist, CGRP receptor agonist, tachykinin receptor agonist, VIP receptor agonist, opioid agonist, oxytocin receptor agonist, or vasopressin receptor agonist. In some embodiments, the agonist is selected from an agonist listed in Tables 2A-2L. In some embodiments, the agonist is a dopamine agonist listed in Table 2A or 2C. In some embodiments, the dopamine agonist is dopamine, quinpirole dopexamine, bromocriptine, lisuride, pergolide, cabergoline, quinagolide, apomorphine, ropinirole, pramipexole, or piribedil. In some embodiments, the agonist is an adrenergic agonist listed in Table 2A or 2B. In some embodiments, the adrenergic agonist is isoproterenol or metaproterenol.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent is a dopamine antagonist, adrenergic antagonist, nicotinic antagonist, muscarinic antagonist, serotonin antagonist, glutamate receptor antagonist, histamine antagonist, cannabinoid receptor antagonist, purinergic receptor antagonist, GABA antagonist, neuropeptide Y receptor antagonist, somatostatin receptor antagonist, CGRP receptor antagonist, tachykinin receptor antagonist, VIP receptor antagonist, opioid antagonist, oxytocin receptor antagonist, or vasopressin receptor antagonist. In some embodiments, the antagonist is selected from an antagonist listed in Tables 2A-2L. In some embodiments, the antagonist is a dopamine antagonist listed in Table 2A or 2C. In some embodiments, the dopamine antagonist is haloperidol or L-741,626. In some embodiments, the antagonist is a beta adrenergic antagonist listed in Table 2A or 2B. In some embodiments, the beta adrenergic antagonist is propranolol or nadolol.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent is neuropeptide Y, CGRP, somatostatin, bombesin, cholecystokinin, dynorphin, enkephalin, endorphin, gastrin glucagon, melatonin, motilin, neurokinin A, neurokinin B, orexin, oxytocin, pancreatic peptide, peptide YY, substance P, or vasoactive intestinal peptide. In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is neuropeptide Y. In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is CGRP.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent is a neuropeptide Y, CG RP, somatostatin, bombesin, cholecystokinin, dynorphin, enkephalin, endorphin, gastrin glucagon, melatonin, motilin, neurokinin A, neurokinin B, orexin, oxytocin, pancreatic peptide, peptide YY, substance P, or vasoactive intestinal peptide blocking antibody. In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is a neuropeptide Y blocking antibody. In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is a CGRP blocking antibody. In some embodiments, the CGRP blocking antibody is an antibody listed in Table 4.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent is a neurotransmission modulator. In some embodiments, the neurotransmission modulator is a neurotransmitter listed in Tables 1A-1B a neurotransmitter encoded by a gene in Table 7, an agonist or an antagonist of a neurotransmitter of neurotransmitter receptor listed in Tables 1A-1B or encoded by a gene in Table 7, a neurotransmission modulator listed in Table 2M, a modulator of a biosynthesis, channel, ligand receptor, signaling, structural, synaptic, vesicular, or transporter protein encoded by a gene in Table 7, a channel or transporter protein encoded by a gene in Table 8, or a neurotoxin listed in Table 3. In some embodiments, the agonist or antagonist is an agonist or antagonist listed in Tables 2A-2K.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent is a neuropeptide signaling modulator. In some embodiments, the neuropeptide signaling modulator is a neuropeptide listed in Tables 1A-1B or encoded by a gene in Table 7 or analog thereof, an agonist or antagonist of a neuropeptide or neuropeptide receptor listed in in Tables 1A-1B or encoded by a gene in Table 7, or a modulator of a biosynthesis, ligand, receptor, or signaling protein encoded by a gene in Table 7. In some embodiments, the neuropeptide has at least 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 98%, or 99% identity to the neuropeptide sequence referenced by accession number or Entrez Gene ID in Tables 1A-1B or Table 7. In some embodiments, the agonist or antagonist is an agonist or antagonist listed in Tables 2A or 2L.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent is a neuronal growth factor modulator. In some embodiments, the neuronal growth factor modulator is a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 1C or encoded by a gene in Table 7 or an analog thereof, or a modulator of a ligand, receptor, structural, synaptic, or signaling protein encoded by a gene in Table 7. In some embodiments, the neuronal growth factor has at least 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 90%, 98%, or 99% identity to the neuronal growth factor sequence referenced by accession number or Entrez Gene ID in Table 10 or Table 7. In some embodiments, the neuronal growth factor modulator is an antibody listed in Table 5. In some embodiments, the neuronal growth factor modulator is an agonist or antagonist listed in Table 6. In some embodiments, the neuronal growth factor modulator is etanercept, thalidomide, lenalidomide, pomalidomide, pentoxifylline, bupropion, DOI, disitertide, or trabedersen.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent is a neurome gene expression modulator. In some embodiments, the neurome gene expression modulator increases or decreases the expression of a neurome gene in Table 7.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent modulates the expression of a neurome gene in Table 7 or the activity of a protein encoded by a neurome gene in Table 7.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent modulates the expression or activity of a chemokine, chemokine receptor, or immune cell trafficking molecule in Tables 10 or 11.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent is selected from the group including a neurotransmitter, a neuropeptide, an antibody, a small molecule, a DNA molecule, a RNA molecule, a gRNA, and a viral vector. In some embodiments, the antibody is a blocking or neutralizing antibody. In some embodiments, the RNA molecule is an mRNA or an inhibitory RNA. In some embodiments, the viral vector is selected from the group including an adeno-associated virus (AAV), an adenovirus, a parvovirus, a coronavirus, a rhabdovirus, a paramyxovirus, a picornavirus, an alphavirus, a herpes virus, a poxvirus, and a lentivirus. In some embodiments, the herpes virus is a replication deficient herpes virus.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent does not cross the blood brain barrier. In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent has been modified to prevent blood brain barrier crossing by conjugation to a targeting moiety, formulation in a particulate delivery system, addition of a molecular adduct, or through modulation of its size, polarity, flexibility, or lipophilicity.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent does not have a direct effect on the central nervous system or gut.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, wherein the neuromodulating agent is administered locally. In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is administered to or near a lymph node. In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is administered intratumorally.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the method further includes administering a second therapeutic agent. In some embodiments, the second therapeutic agent is a checkpoint inhibitor, a chemotherapeutic agent, a biologic cancer agent, an anti-angiogenic drug, a drug that targets cancer metabolism, an antibody that marks a cancer cell surface for destruction, an antibody-drug conjugate, a cell therapy, a commonly used anti-neoplastic agent, or a non-drug therapy. In some embodiments, the checkpoint inhibitor is an inhibitory antibody, a fusion protein, an agent that interacts with a checkpoint protein, an agent that interacts with the ligand of a checkpoint protein, an inhibitor of CTLA-4, an inhibitor of PD-1, an inhibitor of PD-L1, an inhibitor of PD-L2, or an inhibitor of B7-H3, B7-H4, BTLA, HVEM, TIM3, GAL9, LAG3, VISTA, KIR, 2B4, CD160, CGEN-15049, CHK 1, CHK2, A2aR, or B-7 family ligands. In some embodiments, the biologic cancer agent is an antibody listed in Table 12.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent decreases tumor volume, tumor growth, tumor innervation, cancer cell proliferation, cancer cell invasion, or cancer cell metastasis, or increases cancer cell death.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the method further includes measuring one or more of tumor volume, tumor growth, tumor innervation, cancer cell proliferation, cancer cell invasion, cancer cell metastasis, or tumor neurome gene expression after administration of the neuromodulating agent.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the method further includes measuring cytokine levels after administration of the neuromodulating agent.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the method further includes measuring one or more immune cell markers after administration of the neuromodulating agent.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, wherein the method further includes measuring the expression of one or more neurome genes in Table 7 after administration of the neuromodulating agent.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, wherein the method further includes measuring cytokine levels before administration of the neuromodulating agent.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, wherein the method further includes measuring one or more immune cell markers before administration of the neuromodulating agent.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the one or more immune cell markers is a marker listed in Table 9.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the method further includes profiling an immune cell for expression of one or more neurome genes in Table 7 before administration of the neuromodulating agent. In some embodiments, the method further includes selecting a neuromodulating agent based on the profiling results.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the one or more neurome genes in Table 7 is a channel, transporter, neurotransmitter, neuropeptide, neurotrophic, signaling, synaptic, structural, ligand, receptor, biosynthesis, other, or vesicular gene.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the subject is not diagnosed as having a neuropsychiatric disorder.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the subject is not diagnosed as having high blood pressure or a cardiac condition.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent is administered in an amount sufficient to increase lymph node innervation, increase tumor innervation, increase nerve activity in a lymph node, increase nerve activity in a tumor, increase the development of HEVs or TLOs, increase immune cell migration, increase immune cell proliferation, increase immune cell recruitment, increase immune cell lymph node homing, increase immune cell lymph node egress, increase immune cell tumor homing, increase immune cell tumor egress, increase immune cell differentiation, increase immune cell activation, increase immune cell polarization, increase immune cell cytokine production, increase immune cell degranulation, increase immune cell maturation, increase immune cell ADCC, increase immune cell ADCP, or increase immune cell antigen presentation.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent is administered in an amount sufficient to decrease lymph node innervation, decrease tumor innervation, decrease nerve activity in a tumor, decrease nerve activity in a lymph node, decrease the development of HEVs or TLOs, decrease immune cell migration, decrease immune cell proliferation, decrease immune cell recruitment, decrease immune cell lymph node homing, decrease immune cell lymph node egress, decrease immune cell tumor homing, decrease immune cell tumor egress, decrease immune cell differentiation, decrease immune cell activation, decrease immune cell polarization, decrease immune cell cytokine production, decrease immune cell degranulation, decrease immune cell maturation, decrease immune cell ADCC, decrease immune cell ADCP, or decrease immune cell antigen presentation.

In some embodiments of any of the above aspects, the neuromodulating agent is administered in an amount sufficient to treat the cancer or tumor, cause remission, reduce tumor growth, reduce tumor volume, reduce tumor metastasis, reduce tumor invasion, reduce tumor proliferation, reduce tumor number, increase cancer cell death, increase time to recurrence, or improve survival.

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As used herein, “administration” refers to providing or giving a subject a therapeutic agent (e.g., a neuromodulating agent), by any effective route. Exemplary routes of administration are described herein below.

As used herein, the term “agonist” refers to an agent (e.g., a neurotransmitter, neuropeptide, small molecule, or antibody) that increases receptor activity. An agonist may activate a receptor by directly binding to the receptor, by acting as a cofactor, by modulating receptor conformation (e.g., maintaining a receptor in an open or active state). An agonist may increase receptor activity by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 98% or more. An agonist may induce maximal receptor activation or partial activation depending on the concentration of the agonist and its mechanism of action.

As used herein, the term “analog” refers to a protein of similar nucleotide or amino acid composition or sequence to any of the proteins or peptides of the invention, allowing for variations that do not have an adverse effect on the ability of the protein or peptide to carry out its normal function (e.g., bind to a receptor or initiate neurotransmitter or neuropeptide signaling). Analogs may be the same length, shorter, or longer than their corresponding protein or polypeptide. Analogs may have about 60% (e.g., about 60%, about 62%, about 64%, about 66%, about 68%, about 70%, about 72%, about 74%, about 76%, about 78%, about 80%, about 82%, about 84%, about 86%, about 88%, about 90%, about 92%, about 94%, about 96%, about 98%, or about 99%) identity to the amino acid sequence of the naturally occurring protein or peptide. An analog can be a naturally occurring protein or polypeptide sequence that is modified by deletion, addition, mutation, or substitution of one or more amino acid residues.

As used herein, the term “antagonist” refers to an agent (e.g., a neurotransmitter, neuropeptide, small molecule, or antibody) that reduces or inhibits receptor activity. An antagonist may reduce receptor activity by directly binding to the receptor, by blocking the receptor binding site, by modulating receptor conformation (e.g., maintaining a receptor in a closed or inactive state). An antagonist may reduce receptor activity by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 98% or more. An antagonist may also completely block or inhibit receptor activity. Antagonist activity may be concentration-dependent or -independent.

As used herein, the term “antibody” comprises at least the variable domain of a heavy chain, and normally comprises at least the variable domains of a heavy chain and of a light chain of an immunoglobulin, which bind to an antigen of interest. Antibodies and antigen-binding fragments, variants, or derivatives thereof include, but are not limited to, polyclonal, monoclonal, multispecific, human, humanized, primatized, or chimeric antibodies, single chain antibodies, epitope-binding fragments, e.g., Fab, Fab′ and F(ab′)₂, Fd, Fvs, single-chain Fvs (scFv), single-chain antibodies, disulfide-linked Fvs (sdFv), fragments comprising either a V_(L) or V_(H) domain, fragments produced by a Fab expression library, and anti-idiotypic (anti-Id) antibodies. Antibody molecules of the invention can be of any type (e.g., IgG, IgE, IgM, IgD, IgA, and IgY), class (e.g., IgG1, IgG2, IgG3, IgG4, IgA1 and IgA2) or subclass of immunoglobulin molecule.

As used herein, the term “cardiac condition” refers to a medical condition directly affecting the heart or circulatory system. Cardiac conditions include abdominal aortic aneurysm, arrhythmia (e.g., supraventricular tachycardia, inappropriate sinus tachycardia, atrial flutter, atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, and ventricular fibrillation), angina, atherosclerosis, brugada syndrome, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy, cardiovascular disease, congenital heart disease, coronary heart disease, catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CVPT), familial hypercholesterolaemia, heart attack, heart failure, heart block, heart valve disease (e.g., heart murmur, valve stenosis, mitral valve prolapse, and heart valve regurgitation), inherited heart conditions, long QT syndrome, progressive cardiac conduction deficit (PCCD), pericarditis, venous thromboembolism, peripheral artery disease, and stroke.

As used herein, the term “cell type” refers to a group of cells sharing a phenotype that is statistically separable based on gene expression data. For instance, cells of a common cell type may share similar structural and/or functional characteristics, such as similar gene activation patterns and antigen presentation profiles. Cells of a common cell type may include those that are isolated from a common tissue (e.g., epithelial tissue, neural tissue, connective tissue, or muscle tissue) and/or those that are isolated from a common organ, tissue system, blood vessel, or other structure and/or region in an organism.

As used herein, a “combination therapy” or “administered in combination” means that two (or more) different agents or treatments are administered to a subject as part of a defined treatment regimen for a particular disease or condition. The treatment regimen defines the doses and periodicity of administration of each agent such that the effects of the separate agents on the subject overlap. In some embodiments, the delivery of the two or more agents is simultaneous or concurrent and the agents may be co-formulated. In other embodiments, the two or more agents are not co-formulated and are administered in a sequential manner as part of a prescribed regimen. In some embodiments, administration of two or more agents or treatments in combination is such that the reduction in a symptom, or other parameter related to the disorder is greater than what would be observed with one agent or treatment delivered alone or in the absence of the other. The effect of the two treatments can be partially additive, wholly additive, or greater than additive (e.g., synergistic). Sequential or substantially simultaneous administration of each therapeutic agent can be effected by any appropriate route including, but not limited to, oral routes, intravenous routes, intramuscular routes, and direct absorption through mucous membrane tissues. The therapeutic agents can be administered by the same route or by different routes. For example, a first therapeutic agent of the combination may be administered by intravenous injection while a second therapeutic agent of the combination may be administered orally.

As used herein, an agent that “does not cross the blood brain barrier” is an agent that does not significantly cross the barrier between the peripheral circulation and the brain and spinal cord. This can also be referred to as “blood brain barrier impermeable” agent. Agents will have a limited ability to cross the blood brain barrier if they are not lipid soluble or have a molecular weight of over 600 Daltons. Agents that typically cross the blood brain barrier can be modified to become blood brain barrier impermeable based on chemical modifications that increase the size or alter the hydrophobicity of the agent, packaging modifications that reduce diffusion (e.g., packaging an agent within a microparticle or nanoparticle), and conjugation to biologics that direct the agent away from the blood brain barrier (e.g., conjugation to a pancreas-specific antibody). An agent that does not cross the blood brain barrier is an agent for which 30% or less (e.g., 30%, 25%, 20%, 15%, 10%, 5%, 2% or less) of the administered agent crosses the blood brain barrier.

As used herein, an agent that “does not have a direct effect on the central nervous system (CNS) or gut” is an agent that does not directly alter neurotransmission, neuronal numbers, or neuronal morphology in the CNS or gut when administered according to the methods described herein. This may be assessed by administering the agents to animal models and performing electrophysiological recordings or immunohistochemical analysis. An agent will be considered not to have a direct effect on the CNS or gut if administration according to the methods described herein has an effect on neurotransmission, neuronal numbers, or neuronal morphology in the CNS or gut that is 50% or less (e.g., 50%, 45%, 40%, 35%, 30%, 25%, 20%, 15%, 10%, 5%, or less) of the effect observed if the same agent is administered directly to the CNS or gut.

As used herein, the terms “effective amount,” “therapeutically effective amount,” and a “sufficient amount” of composition, vector construct, viral vector or cell described herein refer to a quantity sufficient to, when administered to the subject, including a mammal, for example a human, effect beneficial or desired results, including clinical results, and, as such, an “effective amount” or synonym thereto depends upon the context in which it is being applied. For example, in the context of treating cancer it is an amount of the composition, vector construct, viral vector or cell sufficient to achieve a treatment response as compared to the response obtained without administration of the composition, vector construct, viral vector or cell. The amount of a given composition described herein that will correspond to such an amount will vary depending upon various factors, such as the given agent, the pharmaceutical formulation, the route of administration, the type of disease or disorder, the identity of the subject (e.g., age, sex, weight) or host being treated, and the like, but can nevertheless be routinely determined by one skilled in the art. Also, as used herein, a “therapeutically effective amount” of a composition, vector construct, viral vector or cell of the present disclosure is an amount which results in a beneficial or desired result in a subject as compared to a control. As defined herein, a therapeutically effective amount of a composition, vector construct, viral vector or cell of the present disclosure may be readily determined by one of ordinary skill by routine methods known in the art. Dosage regime may be adjusted to provide the optimum therapeutic response.

As used herein, the term “high blood pressure” refers to a chronic medical condition in which the systemic arterial blood pressure is elevated. It is classified as blood pressure above 140/90 mmHg.

As used herein, the terms “increasing” and “decreasing” refer to modulating resulting in, respectively, greater or lesser amounts, of function, expression, or activity of a metric relative to a reference. For example, subsequent to administration of an neuromodulating agent in a method described herein, the amount of a marker of a metric (e.g., T cell polarization) as described herein may be increased or decreased in a subject by at least 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 45%, 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95% or 98% or more relative to the amount of the marker prior to administration. Generally, the metric is measured subsequent to administration at a time that the administration has had the recited effect, e.g., at least one week, one month, 3 months, or 6 months, after a treatment regimen has begun.

As used herein, the term “innervated” refers to a tissue (e.g., a lymph node or tumor) that contains nerves. “Innervation” refers to the process of nerves entering a tissue.

As used herein, “locally” or “local administration” means administration at a particular site of the body intended for a local effect and not a systemic effect. Examples of local administration are epicutaneous, inhalational, intra-articular, intrathecal, intravaginal, intravitreal, intrauterine, intra-lesional administration, lymph node administration, intratumoral administration and administration to a mucous membrane of the subject, wherein the administration is intended to have a local and not a systemic effect.

As used herein, a “neuromodulating agent” is an agent that affects a nerve impulse, a nerve function, one or more components of a neural pathway, neural structure, function, or activity in a neuron or a cell of an innervated tissue, e.g., in the peripheral nervous system. A neuromodulating agent may, e.g., increase or decrease neurogenesis; potentiate or inhibit the transmission of a nerve impulse; increase or decrease innervation of a tissue or tumor; or increase or decrease adrenergic, dopaminergic, cholinergic, serotonergic, glutamatergic, purinergic, GABAergic, or neuropetidergic signaling in a nerve or cell of an innervated tissue. A neuromodulating agent may be a neuropeptide, a neurotoxin, or a neurotransmitter, and may be any type of agent such as a small molecule (e.g. a neuropeptide or neurotransmitter agonist or antagonist), a peptide, a protein (e.g., an antibody or receptor fusion protein) or a nucleic acid (e.g., a therapeutic mRNA). Neuromodulating agents include neurotransmission modulators, neuropeptide signaling modulators, neuronal growth factor modulators, and neurome gene expression modulators.

As used herein, the term “neurome gene” refers to a gene expressed by a cell or tissue of the nervous system. A list of exemplary neurome genes is provided in Tables 1A-1C, Table 7, and Table 8. Non-nervous system cells and tissues (e.g., immune cells and tumors) can also express neurome genes, and the invention includes methods of profiling non-nervous system cells and tissues for neurome gene expression, modulating neurome gene expression in in non-nervous system cells and tissues, and treating cancer based on neurome gene expression in in non-nervous system cells and tissues.

As used herein, the term “neurome gene expression modulator” refers to a neuromodulating agent that affects gene expression (e.g., gene transcription, gene translation, or protein levels) of one or more neurome genes. A neurome gene expression modulator may increase or decrease gene expression by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 98%, or more. Neurome gene expression modulators may increase gene expression through epigenetic modifications (e.g., demethylation or acetylation), post-translational modifications (e.g., reducing ubiquitination, or altering sumoylation or phosphorylation), by increasing mRNA translation and stability, or through delivery of exogenous genetic material (e.g., a viral vector expressing a gene of interest). Neurome gene expression modulators may decrease gene expression through epigenetic modifications (e.g., methylation or deacetylation), post-translational modifications (e.g., increasing ubiquitination, or altering sumoylation or phosphorylation), or by decreasing mRNA translation and stability (e.g., using miRNA, siRNA, shRNA, or other therapeutic RNAs).

As used herein, the term “neuronal growth factor modulator” refers to a neuromodulating agent that regulates neuronal growth, development, or survival. Neuronal growth factors include proteins that promote neurogenesis, neuronal growth, and neuronal differentiation (e.g., neurotrophic factors NGF, NT3, BDNF, CNTF, and GDNF), proteins that promote neurite outgrowth (e.g., axon or dendrite outgrowth or stabilization), or proteins that promote synapse formation (e.g., synaptogenesis, synapse assembly, synaptic adhesion, synaptic maturation, synaptic refinement, or synaptic stabilization). These processes lead to innervation of tissue, including neural tissue, muscle, lymph nodes and tumors, and the formation of synaptic connections between two or more neurons and between neurons and non-neural cells (e.g., tumor cells). A neuronal growth factor modulator may block one or more of these processes (e.g., through the use of antibodies that block neuronal growth factors or their receptors) or promote one or more of these processes (e.g., through the use of these proteins or analogs or peptide fragments thereof). Exemplary neuronal growth factors are listed in Table 10.

As used herein, the term “neuropeptide signaling modulator” refers to a neuromodulating agent that either induces or increases neuropeptide signaling, or decreases or blocks neuropeptide signaling. Neuropeptide signaling modulators can increase or decrease neuropeptide signaling by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 98% or more. Exemplary neuropeptides and neuropeptide receptors are listed in Tables 1A-1B. Neuropeptide signaling modulators that induce or increase neuropeptide signaling include neuropeptides and analogs and fragments thereof, agents that increase neuropeptide receptor activity (e.g., neuropeptide agonists), and agents that reduce neuropeptide degradation or reuptake. Neuropeptide signaling modulators that decrease or block neuropeptide signaling include agents that reduce or inhibit neuropeptide receptor activity (e.g., neuropeptide antagonists), agents that bind to neuropeptides or block their interaction with receptors (e.g., neuropeptide blocking antibodies), or agents that increase neuropeptide degradation or clearance. Exemplary neuropeptide agonists and antagonists are listed in Tables 2A and 2L.

As used herein, the term “neuropsychiatric disorder” refers to a psychiatric or mental disorder that may cause suffering or an impaired ability to function. A neuropsychiatric disorder is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. Neuropsychiatric disorders may be diagnosed by psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, or physicians. Neuropsychiatric disorders include mood disorders (e.g., depression, bipolar depression, major depressive disorder), psychotic disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder), personality disorders (e.g., borderline personality disorder, obsessive compulsive personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder), eating disorders, sleep disorders, sexual disorders, anxiety disorders (e.g., generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder), developmental disorders (e.g., autism, attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), benign forgetfulness, childhood learning disorders, Alzheimer's disease, addiction, and others listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

As used herein, the term “neurotransmission modulator” refers to a neuromodulating agent that either induces or increases neurotransmission or decreases or blocks neurotransmission. Neurotransmission modulators can increase or decrease neurotransmission by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 98% or more. Exemplary neurotransmitters and neurotransmitter receptors are listed in Tables 1A-1B. Neurotransmission modulators may increase neurotransmission by increasing neurotransmitter synthesis or release, preventing neurotransmitter reuptake or degradation, increasing neurotransmitter receptor activity, increasing neurotransmitter receptor synthesis or membrane insertion, decreasing neurotransmitter degradation, and regulating neurotransmitter receptor conformation. Neurotransmission modulators that increase neurotransmission include neurotransmitters and analogs thereof and neurotransmitter receptor agonists. Neurotransmission modulators may decrease neurotransmission by decreasing neurotransmitter synthesis or release, increasing neurotransmitter reuptake or degradation, decreasing neurotransmitter receptor activity, decreasing neurotransmitter receptor synthesis or membrane insertion, increasing neurotransmitter degradation, regulating neurotransmitter receptor conformation, and disrupting the pre- or postsynaptic machinery. Neurotransmission modulators that decrease or block neurotransmission include antibodies that bind to or block the function of neurotransmitters, neurotransmitter receptor antagonists, and toxins that disrupt synaptic release.

As used herein, the term “percent (%) sequence identity” refers to the percentage of amino acid (or nucleic acid) residues of a candidate sequence that are identical to the amino acid (or nucleic acid) residues of a reference sequence after aligning the sequences and introducing gaps, if necessary, to achieve the maximum percent sequence identity (e.g., gaps can be introduced in one or both of the candidate and reference sequences for optimal alignment and non-homologous sequences can be disregarded for comparison purposes). Alignment for purposes of determining percent sequence identity can be achieved in various ways that are within the skill in the art, for instance, using publicly available computer software, such as BLAST, ALIGN, or Megalign (DNASTAR) software. Those skilled in the art can determine appropriate parameters for measuring alignment, including any algorithms needed to achieve maximal alignment over the full length of the sequences being compared. For example, a reference sequence aligned for comparison with a candidate sequence may show that the candidate sequence exhibits from 50% to 100% sequence identity across the full length of the candidate sequence or a selected portion of contiguous amino acid (or nucleic acid) residues of the candidate sequence. The length of the candidate sequence aligned for comparison purposes may be, for example, at least 30%, (e.g., 30%, 40, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, or 100%) of the length of the reference sequence. When a position in the candidate sequence is occupied by the same amino acid residue as the corresponding position in the reference sequence, then the molecules are identical at that position.

As used herein, a “pharmaceutical composition” or “pharmaceutical preparation” is a composition or preparation, having pharmacological activity or other direct effect in the mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, and/or a finished dosage form or formulation thereof and which is indicated for human use.

As used herein, the term “pharmaceutically acceptable” refers to those compounds, materials, compositions and/or dosage forms, which are suitable for contact with the tissues of a subject, such as a mammal (e.g., a human) without excessive toxicity, irritation, allergic response and other problem complications commensurate with a reasonable benefit/risk ratio.

As used herein, the term “proliferation” refers to an increase in cell numbers through growth and division of cells.

As used herein, the term “sample” refers to a specimen (e.g., blood, blood component (e.g., serum or plasma), urine, saliva, amniotic fluid, cerebrospinal fluid, tissue (e.g., placental or dermal), pancreatic fluid, chorionic villus sample, and cells) isolated from a subject.

As used herein, the terms “subject” and “patient” refer to an animal (e.g., a mammal, such as a human). A subject to be treated according to the methods described herein may be one who has been diagnosed with a particular condition, or one at risk of developing such conditions. Diagnosis may be performed by any method or technique known in the art. One skilled in the art will understand that a subject to be treated according to the present disclosure may have been subjected to standard tests or may have been identified, without examination, as one at risk due to the presence of one or more risk factors associated with the disease or condition.

“Treatment” and “treating,” as used herein, refer to the medical management of a subject with the intent to improve, ameliorate, stabilize (i.e., not worsen), prevent or cure a disease, pathological condition, or disorder. This term includes active treatment (treatment directed to improve the disease, pathological condition, or disorder), causal treatment (treatment directed to the cause of the associated disease, pathological condition, or disorder), palliative treatment (treatment designed for the relief of symptoms), preventative treatment (treatment directed to minimizing or partially or completely inhibiting the development of the associated disease, pathological condition, or disorder); and supportive treatment (treatment employed to supplement another therapy). Treatment also includes diminishment of the extent of the disease or condition; preventing spread of the disease or condition; delay or slowing the progress of the disease or condition; amelioration or palliation of the disease or condition; and remission (whether partial or total), whether detectable or undetectable. “Ameliorating” or “palliating” a disease or condition means that the extent and/or undesirable clinical manifestations of the disease, disorder, or condition are lessened and/or time course of the progression is slowed or lengthened, as compared to the extent or time course in the absence of treatment. “Treatment” can also mean prolonging survival as compared to expected survival if not receiving treatment. Those in need of treatment include those already with the condition or disorder, as well as those prone to have the condition or disorder or those in which the condition or disorder is to be prevented.

As used herein, the term “activation” refers to the response of an immune cell to a perceived insult. When immune cells become activated, they proliferate, secrete pro-inflammatory cytokines, differentiate, present antigens, become more polarized, and become more phagocytic and cytotoxic. Factors that stimulate immune cell activation include pro-inflammatory cytokines, pathogens, and non-self antigen presentation (e.g., antigens from pathogens presented by dendritic cells, macrophages, or B cells).

As used herein, the terms “antibody-dependent cell mediated cytotoxicity” and “antibody-dependent cellular toxicity” (ADCC) refer to the killing of an antibody-coated target cell by a cytotoxic effector cell through a non-phagocytic process, characterized by the release of the content of cytotoxic granules or by the expression of cell death-inducing molecules. ADCC is triggered through interaction of target-bound antibodies (belonging to IgG or IgA or IgE classes) with certain Fc receptors (FcRs), glycoproteins present on the effector cell surface that bind the Fc region of immunoglobulins (Ig). Effector cells that mediate ADCC include natural killer (NK) cells, monocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, eosinophils and dendritic cells.

As used herein, the terms “antibody-dependent cell mediated phagocytosis” and “antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis” (ADCP) refer to the phagocytosis (e.g., engulfment) of an antibody-coated target cell by immune cells (e.g., phagocytes). ADCP is triggered through interaction of target-bound antibodies (belonging to IgG or IgA or IgE classes) with certain Fc receptors (FcRs, e.g., FcγRIIa, FcγRIIIa, and FcγRI), glycoproteins present on the effector cell surface that bind the Fc region of immunoglobulins (Ig). Effector cells that mediate ADCP include monocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, and dendritic cells.

As used herein, the term “antigen presentation” refers to a process in which fragments of antigens are displayed on the cell surface of immune cells. Antigens are presented to T cells and B cells to stimulate an immune response. Antigen presenting cells include dendritic cells, B cells, and macrophages. Mast cells and neutrophils can also be induced to present antigens.

As used herein, the term “anti-inflammatory cytokine” refers to a cytokine produced or secreted by an immune cell that reduces inflammation. Immune cells that produce and secrete anti-inflammatory cytokines include T cells (e.g., Th cells) macrophages, B cells, and mast cells. Anti-inflammatory cytokines include IL4, IL-10, IL-11, IL-13, interferon alpha (IFNα) and transforming growth factor-beta (TGFβ).

As used herein, the term “chemokine” refers to a type of small cytokine that can induce directed chemotaxis in nearby cells. Classes of chemokines include CC chemokines, CXC chemokines, C chemokines, and CX3C chemokines. Chemokines can regulate immune cell migration and homing, including the migration and homing of monocytes, macrophages, T cells, mast cells, eosinophils, and neutrophils. Chemokines responsible for immune cell migration include CCL19, CCL21, CCL14, CCL20, CCL25, CCL27, CXCL12, CXCL13, CCR9, CCR10, and CXCR5. Chemokines that can direct the migration of inflammatory leukocytes to sites of inflammation or injury include CCL2, CCL3, CCL5, CXCL1, CXCL2, and CXCL8.

As used herein, the term “cytokine” refers to a small protein involved in cell signaling. Cytokines can be produced and secreted by immune cells, such as T cells, B cells, macrophages, and mast cells, and include chemokines, interferons, interleukins, lymphokines, and tumor necrosis factors.

As used herein, the term “cytokine production” refers to the expression, synthesis, and secretion (e.g., release) of cytokines by an immune cell.

As used herein, the term “cytotoxicity” refers to the ability of immune cells to kill other cells. Immune cells with cytotoxic functions release toxic proteins (e.g., perforin and granzymes) capable of killing nearby cells. Natural killer cells and cytotoxic T cells (e.g., CD8+ T cells) are the primary cytotoxic effector cells of the immune system, although dendritic cells, neutrophils, eosinophils, mast cells, basophils, macrophages, and monocytes have been shown to have cytotoxic activity.

As used herein, the term “differentiation” refers to the developmental process of lineage commitment. A “lineage” refers to a pathway of cellular development, in which precursor or “progenitor” cells undergo progressive physiological changes to become a specified cell type having a characteristic function (e.g., nerve cell, immune cell, or endothelial cell). Differentiation occurs in stages, whereby cells gradually become more specified until they reach full maturity, which is also referred to as “terminal differentiation.” A “terminally differentiated cell” is a cell that has committed to a specific lineage, and has reached the end stage of differentiation (i.e., a cell that has fully matured). By “committed” or “differentiated” is meant a cell that expresses one or more markers or other characteristic of a cell of a particular lineage.

As used herein, the term “degranulation” refers to a cellular process in which molecules, including antimicrobial and cytotoxic molecules, are released from intracellular secretory vesicles called granules. Degranulation is part of the immune response to pathogens and invading microorganisms by immune cells such as granulocytes (e.g., neutrophils, basophils, and eosinophils), mast cells, and lymphocytes (e.g., natural killer cells and cytotoxic T cells). The molecules released during degranulation vary by cell type and can include molecules designed to kill the invading pathogens and microorganisms or to promote an immune response, such as inflammation.

As used herein, the term “immune dysregulation” refers to a condition in which the immune system is disrupted or responding to an insult. Immune dysregulation includes aberrant activation (e.g., autoimmune disease), activation in response to an injury or disease (e.g., disease-associated inflammation), and activation in response to a pathogen or infection (e.g., parasitic infection). Immune dysregulation also includes under-activation of the immune system (e.g., failure to mount an immune response to cancer cells or immunosuppression). Immune dysregulation can be treated using the methods and compositions described herein to direct immune cells to carry out beneficial functions and reduce harmful activities (e.g., promoting activation and cytotoxicity in subjects with cancer and reducing activation and pro-inflammatory cytokine secretion in subjects with autoimmune disease).

As used herein, the term “modulating an immune response” refers to any alteration in a cell of the immune system or any alteration in the activity of a cell involved in the immune response. Such regulation or modulation includes an increase or decrease in the number of various cell types, an increase or decrease in the activity of these cells, or any other changes that can occur within the immune system. Cells involved in the immune response include, but are not limited to, T lymphocytes (T cells), B lymphocytes (B cells), natural killer (NK) cells, macrophages, eosinophils, mast cells, dendritic cells and neutrophils. In some cases, “modulating” the immune response means the immune response is stimulated or enhanced, and in other cases “modulating” the immune response means suppression of the immune system.

As used herein, the term “lymph node egress” refers to immune cell exit from the lymph nodes, which occurs during immune cell recirculation. Immune cells that undergo recirculation include lymphocytes (e.g., T cells, B cells, and natural killer cells), which enter the lymph node from blood to survey for antigen and then exit into lymph and return to the blood stream to perform antigen surveillance.

As used herein, the term “lymph node homing” refers to directed migration of immune cells to a lymph node. Immune cells that return to lymph nodes include T cells, B cells, macrophages, and dendritic cells.

As used herein, the term “migration” refers to the movement of immune cells throughout the body. Immune cells can migrate in response to external chemical and mechanical signals. Many immune cells circulate in blood including peripheral blood mononuclear cells (e.g., lymphocytes such as T cells, B cells, and natural killer cells), monocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells, and polymorphonuclear cells (e.g., neutrophils and eosinophils). Immune cells can migrate to sites of infection, injury, or inflammation, back to the lymph nodes, or to tumors or cancer cells.

As used herein, the term “phagocytosis” refers to the process in which a cell engulfs or ingests material, such as other cells or parts of cells (e.g., bacteria), particles, or dead or dying cells. A cell that capable of performing this function is called a phagocyte. Immune phagocytes include neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages, mast cells, B cells, eosinophils, and dendritic cells.

As used herein, the term “polarization” refers to the ability of an immune cell to shift between different functional states. A cell that is moving toward one of two functional extremes is said to be in the process of becoming more polarized. The term polarization is often used to refer to macrophages, which can shift between states known as M1 and M2. M1, or classically activated, macrophages secrete pro-inflammatory cytokines (e.g., IL-12, TNF, IL-6, IL-8, IL-1B, MCP-1, and CCL2), are highly phagocytic, and respond to pathogens and other environmental insults. M1 macrophages can also be detected by expression of Nos2. M2, or alternatively activated, macrophages secrete a different set of cytokines (e.g., IL-10) and are less phagocytic. M2 macrophages can detected by expression of Arg1, IDO, PF4, CCL24, IL10, and IL4Rα. Cells become polarized in response to external cues such as cytokines, pathogens, injury, and other signals in the tissue microenvironment.

As used herein, the term “pro-inflammatory cytokine” refers to a cytokine secreted from immune cells that promotes inflammation. Immune cells that produce and secrete pro-inflammatory cytokines include T cells (e.g., Th cells) macrophages, B cells, and mast cells. Pro-inflammatory cytokines include interleukin-1 (IL-1, e.g., IL-1β), IL-5, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12, IL-13, IL-18, tumor necrosis factor (TNF, e.g., TNFα), interferon gamma (IFNγ), and granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GMCSF).

As used herein, the term “pro-survival cytokine” refers to a cytokine that promotes the survival of immune cells (e.g., T cells). Pro-survival cytokines include IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-7, and IL-15.

As used herein, the term “recruitment” refers to the re-distribution of immune cells to a particular location (e.g., the site of infection, injury, or inflammation). Immune cells that can undergo this re-distributed and be recruited to sites of injury or disease include monocytes, macrophages, T cells, B cells, dendritic cells, and natural killer cells.

As used herein, the term “cancer” refers to a condition characterized by unregulated or abnormal cell growth. The terms “cancer cell,” “tumor cell,” and “tumor” refer to an abnormal cell, mass or population of cells that result from excessive division that may be malignant or benign and all pre-cancerous and cancerous cells and tissues.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIGS. 1A-1C are a series of graphs showing that dopamine stimulation induces T cell production of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Dopamine was applied to primary human T cells isolated from healthy donors and maintained in culture. Low sub-nanomolar concentrations of dopamine induced an increase in the production of the pro-inflammatory cytokines IFNγ, IL-5, and IL-13 at 72 hours post treatment.

FIGS. 2A-2B are a series of graphs showing that dopamine stimulation induces T cell production of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Dopamine was applied to primary human T cells isolated from healthy donors and maintained in culture. Low sub-nanomolar concentrations of dopamine induced an increase in the production of the pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-6 and IL-10 at 72 hours post treatment.

FIGS. 3A-3B are a series of graphs showing that dopamine stimulation induces T cell production of pro-survival cytokines. Dopamine and the synthetic dopamine agonist quinpirole were applied to primary human T cells isolated from healthy donors and maintained in culture. Stimulation of T cells with dopamine and the synthetic dopamine agonist quinpirole induced an increase in T cell production of the pro-survival cytokine IL-2 (FIGS. 3A-3B). Dopamine induced an increase in IL-2 production at 24 and 48 hours post-treatment, while quinpirole induced an increase at all time points tested.

FIG. 4 is a series of graphs showing that isoproterenol modulates T cell cytokine production. Adrenergic agonist isoproterenol was applied to primary human T cells isolated from healthy donors and maintained in culture. Stimulation of T cells with the adrenergic agonist isoproterenol decreased production of pro-inflammatory cytokine IFNγ in T cells from two different donors at multiple time points.

FIG. 5 is a series of graphs showing that isoproterenol modulates T cell cytokine production. Adrenergic agonist isoproterenol was applied to primary human T cells isolated from healthy donors and maintained in culture. Stimulation of T cells with the adrenergic agonist isoproterenol decreased production of pro-inflammatory cytokine TNFα in T cells from two different donors at multiple time points.

FIGS. 6A-6C are a series of graphs showing that isoproterenol modulates T cell cytokine production. Adrenergic agonist isoproterenol was applied to primary human T cells isolated from healthy donors and maintained in culture. Stimulation of T cells with the adrenergic agonist isoproterenol decreased production of pro-inflammatory cytokines IFNγ (FIG. 6A), TNFα (FIG. 6B), and IL-10 (FIG. 6C) in T cells from two different donors at 72 hours.

FIG. 7 is a graph showing that neuropeptide Y modulates T cell cytokine production. Neuropeptide Y was applied to primary human T cells isolated from healthy donors and maintained in culture. Stimulation of T cells with Neuropeptide Y induced an increase in IL-4 at sub-nanomolar concentrations at 48 hours post-treatment.

FIGS. 8A-8D are a series of graphs showing that hock injection of dopaminergic pathway modulators in mice modulates T cell migration. C57BL/6J mice were injected in each hock with 50 μL of the immunostimulant CpG ODN (0.1 nmol), 504 of the dopaminergic agonist quinpirole (0.1 nmol), or with 25 μL dopaminergic antagonist (Haloperidol −48.5 nmol) followed by 25 μL quinpirole (0.1 nmol). Hock injection of dopamine agonist quinpirole increased the number of migratory phenotype CCR7+ T cells in the lymph node (FIGS. 8A-8B), which was inhibited by pre-treatment with dopaminergic antagonist haloperidol. In contrast, treatment with CpG ODN increased the number of inflammatory CD69+ T cells but had no effect on CCR7 expression (FIGS. 8C-8D).

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Neuromodulating agents described herein can surprisingly have immune effects, such as effects on T cell polarization, T cell activation, T cell proliferation, cytotoxic T cell activation, circulating monocytes, peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cells, immune cell numbers, macrophage polarization, macrophage phagocytosis, antibody-dependent cell-mediated phagocytosis (ADCP), macrophage activation, macrophage polarization, antigen presentation, antigen presenting cell migration, lymph node immune cell homing and cell egress, NK cell activation, antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC), mast cell degranulation, neutrophil recruitment, eosinophil recruitment, NKT cell activation, B cell activation, and regulatory T cell differentiation. It has been found that neuromodulating agents thus can have a therapeutic effect on cancer.

I. Neuromodulating Agents

Neuromodulating agents described herein can agonize or inhibit genes or proteins in neuromodulatory signaling pathways, in order to treat cancer. Neuromodulatory signaling pathway genes are listed in Tables 1A-C(column 1). Additional neurome genes (e.g., genes expressed by a nervous system cell or tissue) are listed in Table 7 and Table 8. The level, activity and/or function of such genes and the proteins they encode can be modulated by pharmaceutical compositions comprising agents described herein. Neuromodulating agents also include neurotransmitter and neuropeptide ligands listed in Table 1B and neuronal growth factors listed in Table 1C.

Neuromodulating agents can be divided into four major categories: 1) neurotransmission modulators (e.g., agents that increase or decrease neurotransmission, such as neurotransmitter agonists or antagonists or neurotoxins), 2) neuropeptide signaling modulators (e.g., neuropeptides and neuropeptide agonists or antagonists), 3) neuronal growth factor modulators (e.g., neuronal growth factors or agents that agonize or antagonize neuronal growth factor signaling), and 4) neurome gene expression modulators (e.g., agents that modulate expression of a gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8). These classes of neuromodulating are described in more detail herein below.

TABLE 1A NEUROTRANSMITTER & NEUROPEPTIDE GENES & PATHWAYS Accession Entrez Gene Pathway Type Number Gene ID ABAT Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P80404 18 ACHE Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P22303 43 ADCYAP1 Neuropeptide Ligand P18509 116 ADCYAP1R1 Neuropeptide Receptor P41586 117 ADIPOQ Neuropeptide Ligand Q15848 9370 ADM Neuropeptide Ligand P35318 133 ADM2 Neuropeptide Ligand Q7Z4H4 79924 ADORA2A Neurotransmitter Receptor P29274 135 ADORA2B Neurotransmitter Receptor P29275 136 Adra1a Adrenergic/ Receptor P35348 148 Neurotransmitter Adra1b Adrenergic/ Receptor P35368 147 Neurotransmitter Adra1d Adrenergic/ Receptor P25100 146 Neurotransmitter Adra2a Adrenergic/ Receptor P08913 150 Neurotransmitter Adra2b Adrenergic/ Receptor P18089 151 Neurotransmitter Adra2c Adrenergic/ Receptor P18825 152 Neurotransmitter Adrb1 Adrenergic/ Receptor P08588 153 Neurotransmitter Adrb2 Adrenergic/ Receptor P07550 154 Neurotransmitter Adrb3 Adrenergic/ Receptor P13945 155 Neurotransmitter Adrbk1 Adrenergic Kinase P25098 156 Adrbk2 Adrenergic Kinase P35626 157 AGRN Neuropeptide Ligand O00468 375790 AGRP Neuropeptide Ligand O00253 181 AGT Neuropeptide Ligand P01019 183 AGTR1 Neuropeptide Receptor P30556 185 APLN Neuropeptide Ligand Q9ULZ1 8862 ASIP Neuropeptide Ligand P42127 434 AVP Neuropeptide Ligand P01185 551 AVPR1A Neuropeptide Receptor P30560 552 AVPR1B Neuropeptide Receptor P47901 553 AVPR2 Neuropeptide Receptor P30518 554 BACE1 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P56817 23621 BCHE Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P06276 590 BDKRB2 Neuropeptide Receptor P30411 624 BRS3 Neuromodulator Receptor P32247 P32247 C1QBP Neuropeptide Receptor Q07021 708 C4orf48 Neuropeptide Ligand Q5BLP8 401115 C6orf89 Neuromodulator Receptor Q6UWU4 221477 CALCA Neuropeptide Ligand P06881 796 CALCB Neuropeptide Ligand P10092 797 CALCR Neuropeptide Receptor P30988 799 CALCRL Neuropeptide Receptor Q16602 10203 CARTPT Neuropeptide Ligand Q16568 9607 CASR Neuropeptide Biosynthesis P41180 846 CCK Neuropeptide Ligand P06307 885 CCKAR Neuropeptide Receptor P32238 886 CCKBR Neuropeptide Receptor P32239 887 CCL2 Neuropeptide Ligand P13500 6347 CHAT Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P28329 1103 CHGA Neuropeptide Ligand P10645 1113 CHGB Neuropeptide Ligand P05060 1114 CHRFAM7A Neurotransmitter Receptor Q494W8 89832 Chrm1 Cholinergic/ Receptor P11229 1128 Neurotransmitter Chrm2 Cholinergic/ Receptor P08172 1129 Neurotransmitter Chrm3 Cholinergic/ Receptor P20309 1131 Neurotransmitter Chrm4 Cholinergic/ Receptor P08173 1132 Neurotransmitter Chrm5 Cholinergic/ Receptor P08912 1133 Neurotransmitter Chrna1 Cholinergic/ Receptor P02708 1134 Neurotransmitter Chrna10 Cholinergic/ Receptor Q9GZZ6 57053 Neurotransmitter Chrna2 Cholinergic/ Receptor Q15822 1135 Neurotransmitter Chrna3 Cholinergic/ Receptor P32297 1136 Neurotransmitter Chrna4 Cholinergic/ Receptor P43681 1137 Neurotransmitter Chrna5 Cholinergic/ Receptor P30532 1138 Neurotransmitter Chrna6 Cholinergic/ Receptor Q15825 8973 Neurotransmitter Chrna7 Cholinergic/ Receptor P36544 1139 Neurotransmitter Chrna9 Cholinergic/ Receptor Q9UGM1 55584 Neurotransmitter Chrnb1 Cholinergic/ Receptor P11230 1140 Neurotransmitter Chrnb2 Cholinergic/ Receptor P17787 1141 Neurotransmitter Chrnb3 Cholinergic/ Receptor Q05901 1142 Neurotransmitter Chrnb4 Cholinergic/ Receptor P30926 1143 Neurotransmitter Chrnd Cholinergic/ Receptor Q07001 1144 Neurotransmitter Chrne Cholinergic/ Receptor Q04844 1145 Neurotransmitter Chrng Cholinergic/ Receptor P07510 1146 Neurotransmitter CLCF1 Neuropeptide Ligand Q9UBD9 23529 CNR1 Cannabinoid/ Receptor P21554 1268 Neurotransmitter CNR2 Cannabinoid/ Receptor P34972 1269 Neurotransmitter CNRIP1 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q96F85 25927 COMT Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P21964 1312 CORT Neuropeptide Ligand O00230 1325 CPA4 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis Q9UI42 51200 CPE Neuropeptide/ Biosynthesis P16870 1363 Neurotransmitter CRCP Neuropeptide Receptor O75575 27297 CREM Neurotransmitter Signaling Q03060 1390 CRH Neuropeptide Ligand Q13324 1392 CRHBP Neuropeptide Receptor P24387 1393 CRHR1 Neuropeptide Receptor P34998 1394 CRHR2 Neuropeptide Receptor Q13324 1395 CTSH Neuropeptide Biosynthesis P09668 1512 CTSV Neuropeptide Biosynthesis O60911 1515 CYSLTR1 Neuropeptide Receptor Q9Y271 10800 CYSLTR2 Neuropeptide Receptor Q9NS75 57105 DAGLA Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis Q9Y4D2 747 (Cannabinoid) DAGLB Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis Q8NCG7 221955 (Cannabinoid) DBH Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P09172 1621 DBI Neuropeptide Ligand P07108 1622 DDC Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P20711 1644 DGKI Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis O75912 9162 DOPO Dopaminergic Receptor P09172 1621 DPP4 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P27487 1803 Drd1 Dopaminergic/ Receptor P21728 1812 Neurotransmitter Drd2 Dopaminergic/ Receptor P14416 1813 Neurotransmitter Drd3 Dopaminergic/ Receptor P35462 1814 Neurotransmitter Drd4 Dopaminergic/ Receptor P21917 1815 Neurotransmitter Drd5 Dopaminergic/ Receptor P21918 1816 Neurotransmitter ECEL1 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis O95672 9427 EDN1 Neuropeptide Ligand P05305 1906 EDN2 Neuropeptide Ligand P20800 1907 EDN3 Neuropeptide Ligand P14138 1908 EDNRA Neuropeptide Receptor P25101 1909 EDNRB Neuropeptide Receptor P24530 1910 FAAH Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis O00519 2166 FAP Neuropeptide Biosynthesis Q12884 2191 FNTA Neurotransmitter Signaling P49354 2339 FOLH1 Neuropeptide Biosynthesis Q04609 2346 FSHR Neuropeptide Receptor P23945 2492 GABARAP Amine Receptor O95166 11337 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GABARAPL1 Amine Receptor Q9H0R8 23710 Neuromodulator GABARAPL2 Amine Receptor P60520 11345 Neuromodulator GABBR1 Amine Receptor Q9UBS5 2550 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GABBR2 Amine Receptor O75899 9568 Neuromodulator GABRA1 Amine Receptor P14867 2554 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GABRA2 Amine Receptor P47869 2555 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GABRA3 Neurotransmitter Receptor P34903 2556 GABRA4 Neurotransmitter Receptor P48169 2557 GABRA5 Amine Receptor P31644 2558 Neuromodulator/NT GABRA6 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q16445 2559 GABRB1 Neurotransmitter Receptor P18505 2560 GABRB2 Amine Receptor P47870 2561 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GABRB3 Amine Receptor P28472 2562 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GABRD Amine Receptor O14764 2563 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GABRE Neurotransmitter Receptor P78334 2564 GABRG1 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q8N1C3 2565 GABRG2 Amine Receptor P18507 2566 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GABRG3 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q99928 2567 GABRP Neurotransmitter Receptor O00591 2568 GABRQ Neurotransmitter Receptor Q9UN88 55879 GABRR1 Amine Receptor P24046 2569 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GABRR2 Amine Receptor P28476 2570 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GABRR3 Neurotransmitter Receptor A8MPY1 200959 GAD1 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis Q99259 2571 GAD2 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis Q05329 2572 GAL Neuropeptide Ligand P22466 51083 GALP Neuropeptide Ligand Q810H5 85569 GALR1 Neuropeptide Receptor P47211 2587 GALR2 Neuropeptide Receptor O43603 8811 GALR3 Neuropeptide Receptor O60755 8484 GAST Neuropeptide Ligand P01350 2520 GCGR Secretin Receptor P47871 2642 GCHFR Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P30047 2644 GH1 Neuropeptide Ligand P01241 2688 GHRH Neuropeptide Ligand P01286 2691 GHRHR Neuropeptide Receptor Q02643 2692 GHRL Neuropeptide Ligand Q9UBU3 51738 GIP Neuropeptide Ligand P09681 2695 GLRA1 Neurotransmitter Receptor P23415 2741 GLRA2 Neurotransmitter Receptor P23416 2742 GLRA3 Neurotransmitter Receptor O75311 8001 GLRA4 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q5JXX5 441509 GLRB Neurotransmitter Receptor P48167 2743 GLS Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis O94925 2744 GLS2 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis Q9UI32 27165 GluA1 Amine Receptor P42261 2890 (GluR1) Neuromodulator GluK1 Amine Receptor P39086 2897 (GluR5) Neuromodulator GLUL Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P15104 2752 GluN1 Amine Receptor Q05586 2902 (NR1) Neuromodulator GNMT Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis Q14749 27232 GNRH1 Neuropeptide Ligand P01148 2796 GNRH2 Neuropeptide Ligand O43555 2797 GPHN Neuropeptide Ligand Q9NQX3 10243 GPER1 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q99527 2852 GPR1 Neurotransmitter Receptor P46091 2825 GPR139 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q6DWJ6 124274 GPR143 Neurotransmitter Receptor P51810 4935 GPR149 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q86SP6 344758 GPR18 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q14330 2841 GPR21 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q99679 2844 GPR26 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q8NDV2 2849 GPR3 Neurotransmitter Receptor P46089 2827 GPR35 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q9HC97 2859 GPR52 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q9Y2T5 9293 GPR55 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q9Y2T6 9290 GPR78 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q96P69 27201 GPR83 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q9NYM4 10888 GPR84 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q9NQS5 53831 GPRASP1 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q5JY77 9737 GPR50 Amine Receptor Q13585 9248 Neuromodulator GRIA1 Amine Receptor P42261 2890 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRIA2 Amine Receptor P42262 2891 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRIA3 Amine Receptor P42263 2892 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRIA4 Amine Receptor P48058 2893 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRID1 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q9ULK0 2894 GRID2 Neurotransmitter Receptor O43424 2895 GRIK1 Amine Receptor P39086 2897 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRIK2 Amine Receptor Q13002 2898 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRIK3 Amine Receptor Q13003 2899 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRIK4 Amine Receptor Q16099 2900 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRIK5 Amine Receptor Q16478 2901 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRIN1 Amine Receptor Q05586 2902 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRIN2A Amine Receptor Q12879 2903 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRIN2B Amine Receptor Q13224 2904 Neuromodulator GRIN2C Amine Receptor Q14957 2905 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRIN2D Amine Receptor O15399 2906 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRIN3A Amine Receptor Q8TCU5 116443 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRIN3B Amine Receptor O60391 116444 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter GRK2 Neurotransmitter Receptor P25098 156 GRK3 Neurotransmitter Receptor P35626 157 GRM1 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q13255 2911 GRM2 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q14416 2912 GRM3 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q14832 2913 GRM4 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q14833 2914 GRM5 Neurotransmitter Receptor P41594 2915 GRM6 Neurotransmitter Receptor O15303 2916 GRM7 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q14831 2917 GRM8 Neurotransmitter Receptor O00222 2918 GRP Neuropeptide Ligand P07492 2922 GRPR Neuropeptide Receptor P30550 2925 HCRT Neuropeptide Ligand O43612 3060 HCRTR1 Neuropeptide/ Receptor O43613 3061 Orexin HCRTR2 Neuropeptide/ Receptor O43614 3062 Orexin HNMT Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P50135 3176 HOMER1 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q86YM7 9456 HRH1 Amine Receptor P35367 3269 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter HRH2 Amine Receptor P25021 3274 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter HRH3 Amine Receptor Q9Y5N1 11255 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter HRH4 Amine Receptor Q9H3N8 59340 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter Htr1a Serotonin/ Receptor P08908 3350 Neurotransmitter Htr1b Serotonin/ Receptor P28222 3351 Neurotransmitter Htr1c Serotonin Receptor P28335 Htr1d Serotonin/ Receptor P28221 3352 Neurotransmitter Htr1e Serotonin/ Receptor P28566 3354 Neurotransmitter Htr1f Serotonin/ Receptor P30939 3355 Neurotransmitter Htr2a Serotonin/ Receptor P28223 3356 Neurotransmitter Htr2b Serotonin/ Receptor P41595 3357 Neurotransmitter Htr2c Serotonin/ Receptor P28335 3358 Neurotransmitter Htr3a Serotonin/ Receptor P46098 3359 Neurotransmitter Htr3b Serotonin/ Receptor O95264 9177 Neurotransmitter Htr3c Serotonin/ Receptor Q8WXA8 170572 Neurotransmitter Htr3d Serotonin/ Receptor Q70Z44 200909 Neurotransmitter HTR3E Neurotransmitter Receptor A5X5Y0 285242 Htr4 Serotonin/ Receptor Q13639 3360 Neurotransmitter Htr5a Serotonin/ Receptor P47898 3361 Neurotransmitter Htr5b Serotonin Receptor P35365 79247 HTR5BP Neurotransmitter Receptor 645694 Htr6 Serotonin/ Receptor P50406 3362 Neurotransmitter Htr7 Serotonin/ Receptor P32305 3363 Neurotransmitter IAPP Neuropeptide Ligand P10997 3375 ITPR1 Neurotransmitter Signaling Q14643 3708 ITPR2 Neurotransmitter Signaling Q14571 3709 ITPR3 Neurotransmitter Signaling Q14573 3710 KISS1 Neuropeptide Ligand Q15726 3814 KISS1R Neuropeptide Receptor Q969F8 84634 LEP Neuropeptide Ligand P41159 3952 LHCGR Neuropeptide Receptor P22888 3973 LIF Neuropeptide Ligand P15018 3976 LTB4R Neuropeptide Receptor Q15722 1241 LTB4R2 Neuropeptide Receptor Q9NPC1 56413 LYNX1 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q9BZG9 66004 MAOA Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P21397 4128 MAOB Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P27338 4129 MC1R Neuropeptide Receptor Q01726 4157 MC2R Neuropeptide Receptor Q01718 4158 MC3R Neuropeptide Receptor P41968 4159 MC4R Neuropeptide Receptor P32245 4160 MC5R Neuropeptide Receptor P33032 4161 MCHR1 Neuropeptide Receptor Q99705 2847 MCHR2 Neuropeptide Receptor Q969V1 84539 MLN Neuropeptide Ligand P12872 4295 MME Neuropeptide Biosynthesis P08473 4311 MRAP Neuropeptide Receptor Q8TCY5 56246 MRAP2 Neuropeptide Receptor Q96G30 112609 MRGPRF Neurotransmitter Receptor Q96AM1 116535 MRGPRX1 Neuropeptide Receptor Q96LB2 259249 MRGPRX2 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q96LB1 117194 MRGPRX3 Neuropeptide Receptor Q96LB0 117195 MRGPRX4 Neuropeptide Receptor Q96LA9 117196 MTNR1A Amine Receptor P48039 4543 Neuromodulator/ Neuropeptide MTNR1B Amine Receptor P49286 4544 Neuromodulator/ Neuropeptide NAALAD2 Neuropeptide Biosynthesis Q9Y3Q0 10003 NAMPT NT Biosynthesis P43490 10135 NGF Neuropeptide Ligand P01138 4803 NISCH Amine Receptor Q9Y2I1 11188 Neuromodulator/ Neurotransmitter NMB Neuropeptide Ligand P08949 4828 NMBR Neuropeptide Receptor P28336 4829 NMS Neuropeptide Ligand Q5H8A3 129521 NMU Neuropeptide Ligand P48645 10874 NMUR1 Neuropeptide Receptor Q9HB89 10316 NMUR2 Neuropeptide Receptor Q9GZQ4 56923 NOS1 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P29475 4842 NPB Neuropeptide Ligand Q8NG41 256933 NPBWR1 Neuropeptide Receptor P48145 2831 NPBWR2 Neuropeptide Receptor P48146 2832 NPFF Neuropeptide Ligand O15130 8620 NPFFR1 Neuropeptide Receptor Q9GZQ6 64106 NPFFR2 Neuropeptide Receptor Q9Y5X5 10886 NPPA Neuropeptide Ligand P01160 4878 NPPB Neuropeptide Ligand P16860 4879 NPPC Neuropeptide Ligand P23582 4880 NPS Neuropeptide Ligand P0C0P6 594857 NPSR1 Neuropeptide Receptor Q6W5P4 387129 NPTN Neurotransmitter Receptor Q9Y639 27020 NPVF Neuropeptide Ligand Q9HCQ7 64111 NPW Neuropeptide Ligand Q8N729 283869 NPY Neuropeptide Ligand P01303 4852 NPY1R Neuropeptide Receptor P25929 4886 NPY2R Neuropeptide Receptor P49146 4887 NPY4R Neuropeptide Receptor P50391 5540 NPY5R Neuropeptide Receptor Q15761 4889 NPY6R Neuropeptide Receptor Q61212 4888 NTS Neuropeptide Ligand Q6FH20 4922 NTSR1 Neuropeptide Receptor P30989 4923 NTSR2 Neuropeptide Receptor Q63384 23620 NXPH1 Neuropeptide Ligand P58417 30010 NXPH2 Neuropeptide Ligand O95156 11249 NXPH3 Neuropeptide Ligand O95157 11248 NXPH4 Neuropeptide Ligand O95158 11247 OGFR Neuropeptide Receptor Q9NZT2 11054 OPRD1 Neuropeptide/ Receptor P41143 4985 Opioid OPRK1 Neuropeptide/ Receptor P41145 4986 Opioid OPRL1 Neuropeptide Receptor P41146 4987 OPRM1 Neuropeptide/ Receptor P35372 4988 Opioid OXT Neuropeptide Ligand P01178 5020 OXTR Neuropeptide Receptor P30559 5021 P2RX1 Neurotransmitter Receptor P51575 5023 P2RX2 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q9UBL9 22953 P2RX3 Neurotransmitter Receptor P56373 5024 P2RX4 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q99571 5025 P2RX5 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q93086 5026 P2RX6 Neurotransmitter Receptor O15547 9127 P2RX7 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q99572 5027 P2RY11 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q96G91 5032 PAH Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P00439 5053 PC Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P11498 5091 PCSK1 Neuropeptide Biosynthesis P29120 5122 PCSK1N Neuropeptide Ligand/ Q9UHG2 27344 Biosynthesis PDE1B Neurotransmitter Signaling Q01064 5153 PDE4A Neurotransmitter Signaling P27815 5141 PDE4D Neurotransmitter Signaling Q08499 5144 PDYN Neuropeptide Ligand P01213 5173 PENK Neuropeptide Ligand P01211 5179 PHOX2A Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis O14813 401 PHOX2B Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis Q99453 8929 PIK3CA Neurotransmitter Signaling P42336 5290 PIK3CB Neurotransmitter Signaling P42338 5291 PIK3CG Neurotransmitter Signaling P48736 5294 PLCB1 Neurotransmitter Signaling Q9NQ66 23236 PLCB2 Neurotransmitter Signaling Q00722 5330 PLCB3 Neurotransmitter Signaling Q01970 5331 PLCB4 Neurotransmitter Signaling Q15147 5332 PLCD1 Neurotransmitter Signaling P51178 5333 PLCE1 Neurotransmitter Signaling Q9P212 51196 PLCG1 Neurotransmitter Signaling P19174 5335 PLCL1 Neurotransmitter Signaling Q15111 5334 PLCL2 Neurotransmitter Signaling Q9UPR0 23228 PMCH Neuropeptide Ligand P20382 5367 PNOC Neuropeptide Ligand Q13519 5368 POMC Neuropeptide Ligand P01189 5443 PPP1CB Neurotransmitter Signaling P62140 5500 PPP1CC Neurotransmitter Signaling P36873 5501 PPY Neuropeptide Ligand P01298 5539 PPY2P Neuropeptide Ligand Q9NRI7 23614 PRIMA1 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis Q86XR5 145270 PRKACG Neurotransmitter Signaling P22612 5568 PRKAR2B Neurotransmitter Signaling P31323 5577 PRKCG Neurotransmitter Signaling P05129 5582 PRKX Neurotransmitter Signaling P51817 5613 PRL Neuropeptide Ligand P01236 5617 PRLH Neuropeptide Ligand P81277 51052 PRLHR Neuropeptide Receptor P49683 2834 PRLR Neuropeptide Receptor P16471 5618 PROK1 Neuropeptide Ligand P58294 84432 PROK2 Neuropeptide Ligand Q9HC23 60675 PROKR1 Neuropeptide Receptor Q8TCW9 10887 PROKR2 Neuropeptide Receptor Q8NFJ6 128674 PTGDR Neuropeptide Receptor Q13258 5729 PTGDR2 Neuropeptide Receptor Q9Y5Y4 11251 PTGER1 Neuropeptide Receptor P34995 5731 PTGER2 Neuropeptide Receptor P43116 5732 PTGER3 Neuropeptide Receptor P43115 5733 PTGER4 Neuropeptide Receptor P35408 5734 PTGFR Neuropeptide Receptor P43088 5737 PTGIR Neuropeptide Receptor P43119 5739 PTGS2 Neuropeptide Biosynthesis P35354 5743 PTH Neuropeptide Ligand P01270 5741 PTH1R Neuropeptide Receptor Q03431 5745 PTH2 Neuropeptide Ligand Q9Y3E5 113091 PTH2R Neuropeptide Receptor P49190 5746 PTHLH Neuropeptide Ligand P12272 5744 PTK2 Neuropeptide Signaling Q05397 5747 PTK2B Neuropeptide Signaling Q14289 2185 PYY Neuropeptide Ligand P10082 5697 PYY2 Neuropeptide Ligand Q9NRI6 23615 PYY3 Neuropeptide Ligand Q5JQD4 644059 QRFP Neuropeptide Ligand P83859 347148 QRFPR Neuropeptide Receptor Q96P65 84109 RAMP1 Neuropeptide Receptor O60894 10267 RAMP2 Neuropeptide Receptor O60895 10266 RAMP3 Neuropeptide Receptor O60896 10268 RIC3 Neurotransmitter Receptor Q7Z5B4 79608 RLN1 Neuropeptide Ligand P04808 6013 RLN2 Neuropeptide Ligand P04090 6019 RLN3 Neuropeptide Ligand Q8WXF3 117579 RXFP1 Neuropeptide Receptor Q9HBX9 59350 RXFP2 Neuropeptide Receptor Q8WXD0 122042 RXFP3 Neuropeptide Receptor Q9NSD7 51289 RXFP4 Neuropeptide Receptor Q8TDU9 339403 S1PR4 Neuropeptide Receptor O95977 8698 SCG2 Neuropeptide Ligand/ P13521 7857 Vesicles SCG3 Neuropeptide Ligand/ Q8WXD2 29106 Vesicles SCG5 Neuropeptide Ligand/ P05408 6447 Vesicles SCT Neuropeptide Ligand P09683 6343 SCTR Secretin Receptor P47872 6344 SHANK3 Neurotransmitter Signaling Q9BYB0 85358 SLC6A1 Amine Transferase P30531 6529 Neuromodulator SLC6A13 Amine Transferase Q9NSD5 6540 Neuromodulator Slc6a4 Serotonin Transporter P31645 6532 SNX13 Neurotransmitter Signaling Q9Y5W8 23161 SPX Neuropeptide Ligand Q9BT56 80763 SST Neuropeptide Ligand P61278 6750 SSTR1 Neuropeptide Receptor P30872 6751 SSTR2 Neuropeptide Receptor P30874 6752 SSTR3 Neuropeptide Receptor P32745 6753 SSTR4 Neuropeptide Receptor P31391 6754 SSTR5 Neuropeptide Receptor P35346 6755 TAAR1 Amine Receptor Q96RJ0 134864 Neuromodulator TAAR2 Amine Receptor Q9P1P5 9287 Neuromodulator TAAR5 Neurotransmitter Receptor O14804 9038 TAC1 Neuropeptide Ligand P20366 6863 TAC3 Neuropeptide Ligand Q9UHF0 6866 TAC4 Neuropeptide Ligand Q86UU9 255061 TACR1 Neuropeptide Receptor P25103 6869 TACR2 Neuropeptide Receptor P21452 6865 TACR3 Neuropeptide Receptor P29371 6870 TBXA2R Neuropeptide Receptor P21731 6915 TH Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P07101 7054 TPH1 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis P17752 7166 TPH2 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis Q8IWU9 121278 TRHDE Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis Q9UKU6 29953 TRH Neuropeptide Ligand P20396 7200 TRHR Neuropeptide Receptor P34981 7201 TSHR Neuropeptide Receptor P16473 7253 UCN Neuropeptide Ligand P55089 7349 UCN2 Neuropeptide Ligand Q96RP3 90226 UCN3 Neuropeptide Ligand Q969E3 114131 UTS2 Neuropeptide Ligand O95399 10911 UTS2B Neuropeptide Ligand Q756I0 257313 UTS2R Neuropeptide Receptor Q9UKP6 2837 VIP Neuropeptide Ligand P01282 7432 VIPR1 Neuropeptide Receptor P32241 7433 VIPR2 Neuropeptide Receptor P41587 7434

TABLE 1B NEUROTRANSMITTERS & NEUROPEPTIDE LIGANDS Accession Ligand Pathway Type Number 2-Arachidonoylglycerol Endocannabinoid Ligand 2-Arachidonyl glyceryl ether Endocannabinoid Ligand 3-methoxytyramine Amines Ligand Acetylcholine Amino Acids Ligand Adenosine Purine Ligand Adenosine triphosphate Purine Ligand Agmatine Amino Acids Ligand Anandamide Endocannabinoid Ligand Aspartate Amino Acids Ligand Bombesin Other Ligand Carbon monoxide Gas Ligand Cholecystokinin Gastrins Ligand P06307 Cocaine Other Ligand Corticotropin Opioids Ligand D-serine Amino Acids Ligand Dopamine Monoamines Ligand Dynorphin Opioids Ligand Endorphin Opioids Ligand Enkephaline Opioids Ligand Epinephrine Monoamines Ligand Gamma-aminobutyric acid Amino Acids Ligand Gastrin Gastrins Ligand P01350 Gastrin releasing peptide Other Ligand P07492 Glucagon Secretins Ligand Glutamate Amino Acids Ligand Glycine Amino Acids Ligand Growth hormone-releasing Secretins Ligand Q9UBU3 factor Histamine Monoamines Ligand Melatonin Monoamines Ligand Motilin Secretins Ligand P12872 N-Acetylaspartylglutamate Neuropeptides Ligand N-Arachidonoyl dopamine Endocannabinoid Ligand N-methylphenethylamine Amines Ligand N-methyltryptamine Amines Ligand Neurokinin A Tachykinins Ligand P20366 Neurokinin B Tachykinins Ligand Q334E7 Neuropeptide Y Neuropeptides Ligand P01303 Neurophysin I Neurohypophyseals Ligand P01178 Neurophysin II Neurohypophyseals Ligand P01185 Nitric oxide Gas Ligand Norepinephrine Monoamines Ligand Octopamine Amines Ligand Orexin A Orexins Ligand O43612 Orexin B Orexins Ligand O43613 Oxytocin Neurohypophyseals Ligand Pancreatic polypeptide Neuropeptides Ligand P01298 Peptide YY Neuropeptides Ligand P10082 Phenethylamine Amines Ligand Serotonin Monoamines Ligand Somatostatin Somatostatins Ligand P61278 Substance P Neuropeptides Ligand Synephrine Amines Ligand Tryptamine Amines Ligand Tyramine Amines Ligand Vasoactive intestinal Secretins Ligand P01282 peptide Vasopressin Neurohypophyseals Ligand Virodhamine Endocannabinoid Ligand

TABLE 1C NEURONAL GROWTH FACTORS Accession Entrez Gene Type Number Gene ID ARTN Ligand Q5T4W7 9048 BDNF Ligand P23560 627 BDNF-AS Ligand 497258 BEX1 Signaling Q9HBH7 55859 BEX3 Signaling Q00994 27018 CD34 Receptor P28906 947 CDNF Ligand Q49AH0 441549 CNTF Ligand P26441 1270 CNTFR Receptor P26992 1271 CRLF1 Receptor O75462 9244 CSPG5 Ligand O95196 10675 DCLK1 Signaling O15075 9201 DISC1 Signaling Q9NRI5 27185 DNAJC5 Signaling Q9H3Z4 80331 DPYSL2 Signaling Q16555 1808 DVL1 Signaling O14640 1855 EFNA5 Ligand P52803 1946 EGR3 Signaling Q06889 1960 ENO2 Signaling P09104 2026 EphA1 Receptor P21709 2041 EphA10 Receptor Q5JZY3 284656 EphA2 Receptor P29317 1969 EphA3 Receptor P29320 2042 EphA4 Receptor P29317 2043 EphA5 Receptor P54756 2044 EphA6 Receptor Q9UF33 285220 EphA7 Receptor Q15375 2045 EphA8 Receptor P29322 2046 EphB1 Receptor P54762 2047 EphB2 Receptor P29323 2048 EphB3 Receptor P54753 2049 EphB4 Receptor P54760 2050 EphB6 Receptor O15197 2051 ETBR2 Receptor O60883 9283 FSTL4 Receptor Q6MZW2 23105 GDNF Ligand P39905 2668 GFRA1 Receptor P56159 2674 GFRA2 Receptor O00451 2675 GFRA3 Receptor O60609 2676 GFRA4 Receptor Q9GZZ7 64096 GPR37 Receptor O15354 2861 GPRIN1 Signaling Q7Z2K8 114787 GPRIN2 Signaling O60269 9721 GPRIN3 Signaling Q6ZVF9 285513 GRB2 Signaling P62993 2885 GZF1 Signaling Q9H116 64412 IFNA1 Ligand P01562 3439 IGF1 Ligand P05019 3479 IGF2 Ligand P01344 3481 IL11RA Receptor Q14626 3590 IL1B Ligand P01584 3553 IL3 Ligand P08700 3562 IL4 Ligand P05112 3565 IL6 Ligand P05231 3569 IL6R Receptor P08887 3570 IL6ST Signaling P40189 3572 INS Ligand P01308 3630 L1CAM Signaling P32004 3897 LIF Ligand P15018 3976 LIFR Receptor P42702 3977 MAGED1 Signaling Q9Y5V3 9500 MANF Ligand P55145 7873 NDNF Ligand Q8TB73 79625 NENF Ligand Q9UMX5 29937 NENFP1 Ligand 106480294 NENFP2 Ligand 100129880 NENFP3 Ligand 106481703 NGF Ligand P01138 4803 NGFR Receptor P08138 4804 NRG1 Ligand Q02297 3084 NRP1 Receptor O14786 8829 NRTN Ligand Q99748 902 NTF3 Ligand P20783 4908 NTF4 Ligand P34130 4909 NTRK1 Receptor P04629 4914 NTRK2 Receptor Q16620 4915 NTRK3 Receptor Q16288 4916 PDPK1 Signaling O15530 5170 PEDF Ligand P36955 5176 PLEKHH3 Signaling Q7Z736 79990 PSAP Ligand P07602 5660 PSEN1 Signaling P49768 5663 PSPN Ligand O70300 5623 PTN Ligand P21246 5764 RELN Ligand P78509 5649 RET Signaling P07949 5979 ROR1 Receptor Q01973 4919 ROR2 Receptor Q01974 4920 RPS6KA3 Signaling P51812 6197 SDC3 Receptor O75056 9672 SEMA3E Ligand O15041 9723 SERPINE2 Ligand P07093 5270 SERPINF1 Ligand P36955 5176 SHC1 Signaling P51812 6464 SNTG1 Biosynthesis P07602 54212 SORCS1 Receptor O75056 114815 SORCS2 Receptor O15041 57537 SORCS3 Receptor P07093 22986 SORT1 Receptor Q99523 6272 SULF1 Signaling Q8IWU6 23213 SULF2 Signaling Q8IWU5 55959 TGFB1 Ligand P01137 7040 TGFB2 Ligand P61812 7042 TGFB3 Ligand P10600 7043 TMEM158 Receptor Q8WZ71 25907 TNF Ligand P01375 7124 TPM3 Receptor P06753 7170 VEGFA Ligand P15692 7422 VEGFB Ligand P49765 7423 VGF Ligand O15240 7425 XCR1 Receptor P46094 2829 ZN274 Signaling Q96GC6 10782

Neurotransmission Modulators

In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is a neurotransmission modulator (e.g., an agent that increases or decreases neurotransmission). For example, in some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is a neurotransmitter or neurotransmitter receptor listed in Table 1A, 1B, Table 7, or Table 8, a modulator of a channel or transporter encoded by a gene in Table 7, or an agonist or antagonist listed in Tables 2A-2K for a corresponding neurotransmitter pathway member. In some embodiments, the neurotransmission modulator is a neurotransmission modulator listed in Table 2M. Neuromodulating agents that increase neurotransmission include neurotransmitters and neurotransmitter receptors listed in Tables 1A, 1B, Table 7, and Table 8 and analogs thereof, and neurotransmitter agonists (e.g., small molecules that agonize a neurotransmitter receptor listed in Table 1 A or encoded by a gene in Table 7 or Table 8). Exemplary agonists are listed in Tables 2A-2K. In some embodiments, neurotransmission is increased via administration, local delivery, or stabilization of neurotransmitters (e.g., ligands listed in Tables 1A, 1B, and Table 7). Neurotransmission modulators that increase neurotransmission also include agents that increase neurotransmitter synthesis or release (e.g., agents that increase the activity of a biosynthetic protein encoded by a gene in Table 1 A or Table 7 via stabilization, overexpression, or upregulation, or agents that increase the activity of a synaptic or vesicular protein encoded by a gene in Table 7 via stabilization, overexpression, or upregulation), prevent neurotransmitter reuptake or degradation (e.g., agents that block or antagonize transporters encoded by a gene in Table 7 or Table 8 that remove neurotransmitter from the synaptic cleft), increase neurotransmitter receptor activity (e.g., agents that increase the activity of a signaling protein encoded by a gene in Table 1 A or Table 7 via stabilization, overexpression, agonism, or upregulation, or agents that upregulate, agonize, or stabilize a neurotransmitter receptor listed in Table 1A or encoded by a gene in Table 7 or Table 8), increase neurotransmitter receptor synthesis or membrane insertion, decrease neurotransmitter degradation, and regulate neurotransmitter receptor conformation (e.g., agents that bind to a receptor and keep it in an “open” or “primed” conformation). In some embodiments, the neurotransmitter receptor is a channel (e.g., a ligand or voltage gated ion channel listed in Table 7 or Table 8), the activity of which can be increased by agonizing, opening, stabilizing, or overexpressing the channel. Neurotransmission modulators that increase neurotransmission further include agents that stabilize a structural protein encoded by a gene in Table 7. Neurotransmission modulators can increase neurotransmission by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 98% or more. Exemplary neurotransmission modulators are listed in Table 2M.

Neuromodulating agents that decrease neurotransmission include neurotransmitter antagonists (e.g., small molecules that antagonize a neurotransmitter receptor listed in Table 1 A or Table 7 or Table 8). Exemplary antagonists are listed herein below and in Tables 2A-2K. Neurotransmission modulators that decrease neurotransmission also include agents that decrease neurotransmitter synthesis or release (e.g., agents that decrease the activity of a biosynthetic protein encoded by a gene in Table 1A or Table 7 via inhibition or downregulation, or agents that decrease the activity of a synaptic or vesicular protein encoded by a gene in Table 7 via blocking, disrupting, or downregulating, or antagonizing the protein), increase neurotransmitter reuptake or degradation (e.g., agents that agonize, open, or stabilize transporters encoded by a gene in Table 7 or Table 8 that remove neurotransmitter from the synaptic cleft), decrease neurotransmitter receptor activity (e.g., agents that decrease the activity of a signaling protein encoded by a gene in Table 1 A or Table 7 via blocking or antagonizing the protein, or agents that block, antagonize, or downregulate a neurotransmitter receptor listed in Table 1A or encoded by a gene in Table 7 or Table 8), decrease neurotransmitter receptor synthesis or membrane insertion, increase neurotransmitter degradation, regulate neurotransmitter receptor conformation (e.g., agents that bind to a receptor and keep it in a “closed” or “inactive” conformation), and disrupt the pre- or postsynaptic machinery (e.g., agents that block or disrupt a structural protein encoded by a gene in Table 7, or agents that block, disrupt, downregulate, or antagonize a synaptic or vesicular protein encoded by a gene in Table 7). In some embodiments, the neurotransmitter receptor is a channel (e.g., a ligand or voltage gated ion channel listed in Table 7 or Table 8), the activity of which can be decreased by blockade, antagonism, or inverse agonism of the channel. Neurotransmission modulators that decrease neurotransmission further include agents that sequester, block, antagonize, or degrade a neurotransmitter listed in Tables 1A, 1B, or encoded by a gene in Table 7. Neurotransmission modulators that decrease or block neurotransmission include antibodies that bind to or block the function of neurotransmitters, neurotransmitter receptor antagonists, and toxins that disrupt synaptic release. Neurotransmission modulators can decrease neurotransmission by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 98% or more.

In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is an adrenergic receptor pathway modulator (e.g., a blocker or agonist of an adrenergic receptor listed in Table 1 A or Table 7, e.g., an adrenergic blocker or agonist listed in Table 2A or Table 2B); a cholinergic receptor pathway modulator (e.g., a blocker or agonist of a cholinergic receptor listed in Table 1 A or Table 7, e.g., a cholinergic blocker or agonist listed in Table 2A, 2E, or 2F); a dopamine receptor pathway modulator (e.g., a blocker or agonist of a dopamine receptor listed in Table 1A or Table 7, e.g., a dopamine blocker or agonist listed in Table 2A or 2C); a serotonin receptor pathway modulator (e.g., a blocker or agonist of a serotonin receptor listed in Table 1A, Table 7, or Table 8, e.g., a serotonin blocker or agonist listed in Table 2A or 2G); a GABA receptor pathway modulator (e.g., a blocker or agonist of a GABA receptor listed in Table 1A, Table 7, or Table 8, e.g., a GABA blocker or agonist listed in Table 2A or 2D); a glutamate receptor pathway modulator (e.g., a blocker or agonist of a glutamate receptor listed in Table 1A, Table 7, or Table 8, e.g., a glutamate blocker or agonist listed in Table 2A or 2H).

TABLE 2A AGONIST AND ANTAGONIST AGENTS Gene Agonist Antagonist Adrb2 NCX 950 Alprenolol Accession Number: Bitolterol Carvedilol P07550 Isoetarine Desipramine Norepinephrine Nadolol Phenylpropanolamine Levobunolol Dipivefrin Metipranolol Epinephrine Bevantolol Orciprenaline Oxprenolol Dobutamine Nebivolol Ritodrine Asenapine Terbutaline Bupranolol Salmeterol Penbutolol Formoterol Celiprolol Salbutamol Pindolol Isoprenaline Acebutolol Arbutamine Bopindolol Arformoterol Fenoterol Pirbuterol Ephedra Procaterol Clenbuterol Bambuterol Indacaterol Droxidopa Olodaterol Vilanterol Pseudoephedrine Cabergoline Mirtazepine Adra1d Midodrine Dapiprazole Accession Number: Norepinephrine Amitriptyline P25100 Clonidine Alfuzosin Oxymetazoline Promazine Pergolide Prazosin Bromocriptine Imipramine Droxidopa Nortriptyline Xylometazoline Doxazosin Ergotamine Nicardipine Cirazoline Dronedarone Cabergoline Tamsulosin Methoxamine Propiomazine Epinephrine Phenoxybenzamine Carvedilol Doxepin Terazosin Quetiapine Methotrimeprazine Silodosin Adrb1 Isoetarine Esmolol Accession Number: Norepinephrine Betaxolol P08588 Phenylpropanolamine Metoprolol Epinephrine Atenolol Dobutamine Timolol Salbutamol Sotalol Isoprenaline Propranolol Arbutamine Labetalol Fenoterol Bisoprolol Pirbuterol Alprenolol Ephedra Amiodarone Clenbuterol Carvedilol Droxidopa Nadolol Pseudoephedrine Levobunolol Carteolol Metipranolol Cabergoline Bevantolol Mirtazapine Practolol Loxapine Oxprenolol Vortioxetine Celiprolol Desipramine Nebivolol Asenapine Bupranolol Penbutolol Pindolol Acebutolol Bopindolol Cartelol Adrb3 SR 58611 Bopindolol Accession Number: Norepinephrine Propranolol P13945 Epinephrine Bupranolol Isoprenaline Arbutamine Fenoterol Ephedra Clenbuterol Droxidopa Mirabegron Adrbk1 ATP Alprenolol Accession Number: Carbachol Heparin P25098 Dopamine Isoproterenol Morphine DAMGO histamine Acetylcholine Etorphine NMDA Dopamine Adrbk2 Isoproterenol Propranolol Accession Number: DAMGO P26819 ATP Chrm3 cgmp MT3 Accession Number: ATP hexocyclium P20309 Cevimeline himbacine arecoline Biperiden oxotremorine-M lithocholylcholine NNC 11-1314 AFDX384 xanomeline 4-DAMP oxotremorine hexahydrodifenidol pentylthio-TZTP VU0255035 arecaidine propargyl ester N-methyl scopolamine NNC 11-1607 darifenacin furmethide Thiethylperazine NNC 11-1585 methoctramine Acetylcholine silahexocyclium methylfurmethide strychnine Bethanechol MT7 Carbachol Heparin Succinylcholine Olanzapine ALKS 27 Pirenzepine itopride Clidinium methacholine Ipratropium Meperidine Propantheline Cinnarizine Dicyclomine Trimipramine Darifenacin Tiotropium Atropine Scopolamine Amitriptyline Doxepin Lidocaine Nortriptyline Tropicamide Metixene Homatropine Methylbromide Solifenacin Glycopyrrolate Propiomazine Diphemanil Methylsulfate Promethazine Diphenidol Pancuronium Ziprasidone Quetiapine Imipramine Clozapine Cyproheptadine Aripiprazole Nicardipine Amoxapine Loxapine Promazine Oxyphencyclimine Anisotropine Methylbromide Tridihexethyl Chlorpromazine Ketamine Cyclosporin A Paroxetine Benzquinamide Tolterodine Oxybutynin alcuronium WIN 62,577 Tramadol Chlorprothixene Aclidinium Methotrimeprazine Umeclidinium Cryptenamine Mepenzolate Maprotiline Brompheniramine Isopropamide Trihexyphenidyl Ipratropium bromide Hyoscyamine Procyclidine Pipecuronium Fesoterodine Disopyramide Desipramine Mivacurium Chrna3 Nicotine A-867744 Accession Number: Varenicline NS1738 P32297 Acetylcholine Hexamethonium Ethanol Mecamylamine Cytisine Dextromethorphan Levamisole Pentolinium Galantamine Levomethadyl Acetate Bupropion Chrna6 Nicotine Hexamethonium Accession Number: Cytisine Mecamylamine Q15825 Varenicline Galantamine Chrna9 Nicotine Hexamethonium Accession Number: Galantamine Mecamylamine Q9UGM1 Ethanol Tetraethylammonium Muscarine ATG003 Strychnine Lobeline RPI-78M Chrnb1 Galantamine Accession Number: P11230 Chrnb4 Nicotine Atropine Accession Number: Varenicline Oxybutynin P30926 PNU-120596 Pentolinium Ethanol Dextromethorphan Galantamine Chrng Galantamine Accession Number: P07510 Adcyap1 Nicotine Atropine Accession Number: CGMP PPADS P18509 Apomorphine Onapristone Suramin Muscarine Nifedipine Haloperidol ATP Astressin Dihydrotestosterone Melatonin Maxadilan Scopolamine Dexamethasone Tetrodotoxin Acetylcholine Apamin Histamine Hexamethonium Carbachol Indomethacin NMDA Propranolol Dopamine Bumetanide Isoproterenol Progesterone Salbutamol Charybdotoxin Morphine Prazosin Clonidine Nimodipine 2,6-Diamino-Hexanoic Acid Amide AVPR1B dVDAVP YM 218 Accession Number: LVP Tolvaptan P47901 dAVP Atosiban Oxytocin SSR149415 Desmopressin YM 471 Vasopressin OH-LVA Terlipressin Satavaptan SR 121463 PH-284 CALCB Amylin MK-0974 Accession Number: P10092 CCK Omeprazole devazepide Accession Number: Caffeine Methysergide P06307 Hydrocortisone Cyproheptadine cholesterol Naloxone lauric acid lorglumide Dexamethasone Atropine NAADP Rimonabant Octreotide Raclopride decanoic acid Nicardipine Dopamine Pirenzepine Vapreotide Ranitidine Acetylcholine chenodeoxycholic histamine Dexloxiglumide Carbachol Tetrodotoxin Bethanechol Diltiazem Tegaserod Aspirin Cisapride Fenfluramine Morphine Cyclosporin A CPE Dopamine Accession Number: Insulin, porcine P16870 Insulin Regular CRHBP Hydrocortisone Progesterone Accession Number: Dexamethasone Astressin P24387 Sauvagine CYSLTR1 Salbutamol Montelukast Accession Number: Dexamethasone Zafirlukast Q9Y271 Arachidonic acid Cinalukast Histamine Pranlukast Nedocromil Theophylline Indomethacin Zileuton iralukast pobilukast sulukast verlukast GAL CGMP Colchicine Accession Number: ATP Naloxone P22466 Capsaicin Atropine Galnon Melatonin Dexamethasone Tetrodotoxin Levodopa Reserpine Acetylcholine Glyburide Hexarelin tetraethylammonium Histamine Carbachol Octreotide Dopamine Salbutamol Morphine Clonidine Bromocriptine GALR3 galanin C7 Accession Number: galanin-like peptide M15 O60755 galnon M32 J18 (galanin analogue) M35 J20 (galanin analogue) M40 M1145 M871 M1151 SNAP 37889 M1152 SNAP 398299 M1153 M1160 M617 GRP Nicotine Tamoxifen Accession Number: Diazoxide Atropine P11021 Genistein Pirenzepine Nifedipine Cetrorelix Capsaicin BIM 23127 Caffeine Tetrodotoxin Hydrocortisone Aspirin Dexamethasone Glyburide NAADP Propranolol Isoproterenol Indomethacin NMDA ranatensin Bombesin Bethanechol Octreotide Acetylcholine phyllolitorin Carbachol Dopamine histamine arachidonic acid LTB4R LTB U75302 Accession Number: ATP CP105696 Q15722 Dexamethasone CP-195543 cholesterol etalocib 20-hydroxy-LTB< SC-41930 12R-HETE LY255283 arachidonic acid Zafirlukast ONO-4057 RO5101576 BILL 260 NMU EUK2010 R-PSOP Accession Number: EUK2011 Q9GZQ4 EUK2012 NPM Ornithine Dipyridamole Accession Number: ATP P06748 NPBWR1 NPW-23 CYM50769 Accession Number: des-Br-NPB-23 P48145 Ava3 Ava5 des-Br-neuropeptide B-23 des-Br-neuropeptide B-29 neuropeptide B-29 neuropeptide W-23 neuropeptide W-30 NPW Neuropeptide W-23 Accession Number: Q8N729 NPY Nicotine BIIE0246 Accession Number: Nifedipine Heparin P01303 Capsaicin Theophylline ATP Sulpiride Prednisolone BIBO3304 Bethanechol BIBP3226 Phenylephrine Atropine Acetylcholine Naltrexone histamine Yohimbine Octreotide Phentolamine kainate Haloperidol Muscimol Tetrodotoxin NMDA phencyclidine Carbachol Fenfluramine Methoxamine Indomethacin Isoproterenol Reserpine arpromidine Prazosin Dopamine Clonidine Pilocarpine L-Tyrosinamide 2-Aminoisobutyric acid NPY5R PYY3-36 L-152,804 Accession Number: NPY-(18-36) BIBP3226 Q15761 PYY Velneperit NPY FMS586 histamine BIIE0246 PYY-(3-36) PYY-(3-36) pancreatic polypeptide Acetylcholine AC162352 NTS Apomorphine Olanzapine Accession Number: oleic acid Melatonin Q6FH20 Nicotine Yohimbine Nifedipine Thioridazine Capsaicin Diphenhydramine ATP Haloperidol Dexamethasone SR142948A Levodopa Sulpiride triamcinolone acetonide Naloxone neurotensin Heparin QUINPIROLE Atropine kainate Clozapine histamine apamin Carbachol Tetrodotoxin NMDA Anandamide Isoproterenol Chlorpromazine Acetylcholine phencyclidine Dopamine Reserpine Dexmedetomidine Indomethacin Octreotide Bumetanide Levocabastine Clonidine Morphine arachidonic acid NTSR1 JMV2004 Meclinertant Accession Number: JMV431 SR142948A P30989 JMV457 JMV458 Levocabastine large neuromedin N large neurotensin Dopamine neurotensin contulakin-G KH28 PENK Dopamine Naltrexone Accession Number: kainate Naloxone P01210 NMDA Progesterone DAMGO Morphine PNOC Capsaicin Atropine Accession Number: ACONITINE Naloxone Q13519 Etorphine Naltrexone histamine Buprenorphine NMDA naltrindole Acetylcholine hexamethonium Dopamine Anandamide DAMGO DPDPE Morphine Progesterone PTH2R Ostabolin-C PTH-(7-34) Accession Number: Teriparatide PTHrP-(5-36) P49190 Preotact TIP39 SCG2 ATP Accession Number: Capsaicin P13521 Dexamethasone histamine Acetylcholine Dopamine SCG5 ATP Farnesyl diphosphate Accession Number: Cholesterol Heparin P05408 Dexamethasone NMDA histamine SSTR1 CST-14 Accession Number: Octreotide P30872 Pasireotide SSTR2 Octreotide Progesterone Accession Number: Dopamine Tamoxifen P30874 Pasireotide UCN2 Dopamine Accession Number: Acetylcholine Q96RP3 histamine Sauvagine UTS2 lysophosphatidylcholine palosuran Accession Number: cholesterol Atropine O95399 Acetylcholine Tetrodotoxin Phenylephrine Indomethacin Verapamil VIP cgmp Melatonin Accession Number: Suramin Sumatriptan P01282 Capsaicin Phentolamine Capsaicin Naloxone Caffeine Haloperidol Nifedipine Astressin cromakalim Atropine maxadilan Tetrodotoxin Dexamethasone apamin Prednisolone hexamethonium BAY 55-9837 Amiloride Dihydrotestosterone Thiorphan carbacyclin Indomethacin Citrulline Cyclosporin Carbachol Verapamil histamine Propranolol Dopamine Bumetanide Phenylephrine Captopril Acetylcholine Sildenafil Octreotide Glyburide Methoxamine tetraethylammonium Isoproterenol Ephedrine Salbutamol Bromocriptine Morphine VIPR1 PHM Secretin Accession Number: BAY 55-9837 neurotensin-(6-11)/VIP-(7-28) P32241 helodermin PACAP-27 VIP PACAP-38 PG 99-465 PHI PHI PHV Ro 25-1392 Htr2c Apomorphine Melatonin Accession Number: Bifeprunox SB 224289 P28335 Tramadol LY334362 AL-37350A FR260010 5-MeO-DMT Sulpiride BW723C86 Thiethylperazine CGS-12066 cyamemazine DOI mesulergine 5-CT SB 221284 YM348 zotepine LSD Metergoline xanomeline methiothepin WAY-163909 spiperone Dopamine SB 215505 LY344864 tiospirone VER-3323 SB 228357 TFMPP pizotifen 8-OH-DPAT SB 206553 MK-212 SB 204741 NMDA SDZ SER-082 org 12962 Ritanserin 5-MeOT SB 242084 RU 24969 S33084 Acetylcholine roxindole QUINPIROLE RS-127445 quipazine terguride tryptamine EGIS-7625 Ro 60-0175 SB 243213 Oxymetazoline RS-102221 Ergotamine Olanzapine Cabergoline Aripiprazole Lorcaserin Agomelatine Pergolide Ziprasidone Methylergonovine Quetiapine Renzapride Sarpogrelate Pramipexole Perphenazine GR-127935 Thioridazine BRL-15572 Sertindole ipsapirone Loxapine SB 216641 Methysergide SL65.0155 Risperidone S 16924 Asenapine Bromocriptine Mianserin Lisuride Clozapine Tegaserod Trifluoperazine Epicept NP-1 Trazodone dapoxetine Doxepin Dexfenfluramine Nortriptyline 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Chlorprothixene Ropinirole Minaprine Maprotiline Propiomazine Desipramine Mirtazapine Amoxapine Yohimbine Cyproheptadine Imipramine Amitriptyline Promazine Chlorpromazine Ketamine Propranolol Fluoxetine Ketanserin mesulergine AC-90179 Ergoloid mesylate 2 Methotrimeprazine Paliperidone Clomipramine Trimipramine Captodiame Nefazodone GABA Receptor Bamaluzole bicuculline Accession Numbers GABA metrazol (Q9UBS5, O95166, Gabamide flumazenil O75899, P28472, P18507, GABOB thiothixine P47870, P47869, O14764) Gaboxadol bupropion Ibotenic acid caffeine Isoguvacine Isonipecotic acid Muscimol Phenibut Picamilon Progabide Quisqualamine SL 75102 Thiomuscimol Alcohols (e.g., ethanol, isopropanol) Avermectins (e.g., ivermectin) Barbiturates (e.g., phenobarbital) Benzodiazepines Bromides (e.g., potassium bromide Carbamates (e.g., meprobamate, carisoprodol) Chloralose Chlormezanone Clomethiazole Dihydroergolines (e.g., ergoloid (dihydroergotoxine)) Etazepine Etifoxine Imidazoles (e.g., etomidate) Kavalactones (found in kava) Loreclezole Neuroactive steroids (e.g., allopregnanolone, ganaxolone) Nonbenzodiazepines (e.g., zaleplon, zolpidem, zopiclone, eszopiclone) Petrichloral Phenols (e.g., propofol) Piperidinediones (e.g., glutethimide, methyprylon) Propanidid Pyrazolopyridines (e.g., etazolate) Quinazolinones (e.g., methaqualone) Skullcap constituents Stiripentol Sulfonylalkanes (e.g., sulfonmethane, tetronal, trional) Valerian constituents (e.g., valeric acid, valerenic acid) Volatiles/gases (e.g., chloral hydrate, chloroform, diethyl ether, sevoflurane) Glutamate Receptor 3,5-dihydroxyphenylglycine APICA Accession Number: eglumegad EGLU (P42261, P39086, Biphenylindanone A LY-341,495 P39086, Q13585, P42261, DCG-IV P42262, P42263, P48058, L-AP4 P39086, Q13002, Q13003, Q13003, Q16478, Q12879, Q14957, Q13224, Q14957, O15399, Q8TCU5, O60391) CNR1/CNR2 N-Arachidonoylethanolamine SR 141716A Accession Number: 2-Arachidonoyl-glycerol LY-320135 (P21554, P34972) 2-Arachidonoyl-glycerylether AM251 N-Arachidonoyl-dopamine AM281 O-Arachidonoyl-ethanolamine SR 144528 N-Arachidonoylethanolamine AM630 2-Arachidonoyl-glycerol 2-Arachidonoyl-glycerylether N-Arachidonoyl-dopamine O-Arachidonoyl-ethanolamine Δ 9-THC CP-55,940 R(+)-WIN 55,212-2 HU-210 Levonantradol Nabilone Methanandamide ACEA O-1812 Δ9-THC CP-55,940 R(+)-WIN 55,212-2 HU-210 Levonantradol Nabilone Methanandamide JWH-015 JWH-133

TABLE 2B ADRENERGIC AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS Receptor Agonist Antagonist Non-selective Adrenaline (epinephrine), Carvedilol, arotinolol, and Noradrenaline (norepinephrine), labetalol Isoprenaline (isoproterenol), dopamine, caffeine, nicotine, tyramine, methylphenidate, ephedrine and pseudophedrine. α1 selective Phenylephrine, methoxamine, Acepromazine, alfuzosin, (ADRA1A, ADRA1B, midodrine, cirazoline, doxazosin, labetalol, ADRA1D) Xylometazoline, metaraminol phenoxybenzamine, KW3902, Chloroehtylclonidine, phentolamine, prazosin, oxymetazoline tamsulosin, terazosin, tolazoline, trazodone, amitriptyline, silodosin, clomipramine, doxepin, trimipramine, typical and atypical antipsychotics, and antihistamines, such as hyroxyzine α2 selective A-methyl dopa, clonidine, Phentolamine, (ADRA2A, ADRA2B, Brimonidine, agmatine, phenoxybenzamine, yohimbine, ADRA2C) Dexmedetomidine, idazoxan, atipamezole, Medetomidine, romifidine mirtazapine, tolazoline, Chloroethylclonidine, trazodone, and typical and Detomidine, lofexidine, xylazine, atypical antipsychotics Tizanidine, guanfacine, and amitraz β1 selective Dobutamine Metroprolol, atenolol, acebutolol, (ADRB1) bisoprolol, betaxolol, levobetaxolol, esmolol, celiprolol, carteolol, landiolol, oxprenolol, propanolol, practolol, penbutolol, timolol, labetalol, nebivolol, levobunolol, nadolol, pindolol, sotalol, metipranolol, tertatolol, vortioxene β2 selective Salbutamol, albuterol, bitolterol Butaxamine, acebutolol, timolol, (ADRB2) mesylate, levabuterol, ritodrine, propanolol, levobunolol, metaproterenol, terbutaline, carteolol, labetalol, pindolol, salmeterol, formoterol, and oxprenolol, nadolol, metipranolol, pirbuterol penbutolol, tertatolol, sotalol β3 selective L-796568, amibegron, SR 59230A, arotinolol (ADRB3) solabegron, mirabegron

TABLE 2C DOPAMINE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS Receptor Agonist Antagonist Non-selective Pramipexole, ropinirole, Haloperidol, paliperidone, rotigotine, apomorphine, clozapine, risperidone, propylnorapomorphine, olanzapine, quetiapine, bromocriptine, cabergoline, ziprasidone, metoclopramide, ciladopa, dihydrexidine, droperidol, dromperidone, dinapsoline, doxamthrine, amoxapine, clomipramine, epicriptine, lisuride, pergolide, trimipramine, choline, melatonin, piribedil, quinagolide, roxindole, acepromazine, amisulpride, dopamine asenapine, azaperone, benperidol, bromopride, butaclamol, chlorpromazine, chlorprothixene, clopenthixol, eticlopride, flupenthixol, fluphenazine, fluspirilene, hydroxyzine, iodobenzamide, levomepromazine, loxapine, mesoridazine, nafadotride, nemonapride, penfluridol, perazine, perphenazine, pimozide, prochlorperazine, promazine, raclopride, remoxipride, spiperone, spiroxatrine, stepholidine, sulpiride, suitopride, tetrahydropalmatine, thiethylperazine, thioridazine, thiothixene, tiapride, trifluoperazine, trifluperidol, triflupromazine, and ziprasidone D1 (DRD1) Fenoldopam, A-86929, Sch-23,390, skf-83,959, dihydrexidine, dinapsoline, ecopipam dinoxyline, doxanthrine, SKF- 81297, SKF-82958, SKF-38393, G-BR-APB, dopexamine D2 (DRD2) Cabergoline, pergolide, Chloroethylnorapomorphine, quinelorane, sumanirole, desmethoxyfallypride, talipexole, piribedil, quinpirole, domperidone, eticlopride, quinelorane, dinoxyline, fallypride, hydroxyzine, itopride, dopexamine L-741,626, SV 293, yohimbine, raclopride, sulpiride, D3 (DRD3) Piribedil, quinpirole, captodiame, Domperidone, FAUC 365, compound R, R-16, FAUC 54, nafadotride, raclopride, PNU- FAUC 73, PD-128,907, PF- 99,194, SB-277011-A, sulpiride, 219,061, PF-592,379, CJ-1037, risperidone, YQA14, U99194, SR FAUC 460, FAUC 346, 21502 cariprazine D4 (DRD4) Way-100635, a-412,997, abt- A-381393, FAUC 213, L- 724, abt-670, fauc 316, pd-168, 745,870, L-570,667, ML-398, 077, cp-226,269 fananserin, clozapine D5 (DRD5) Dihydrexidine, rotigotine, SKF- Sch 23390 83,959, fenoldopam, Partial Aplindore, brexpiprazole, aripiprazole, CY-208,243, pardoprunox, phencyclidine, and salvinorin A

TABLE 2D GABA AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS Receptor Agonist Antagonist GABA_(A) Barbiturates (e.g., allobarbital, Bicuculline, gabazine, hydrastine, amobarbital, aprobarbital, pitrazepin, sinomenine, tutin, alphenal, barbital, brallobarbital, thiocolchicoside, metrazol, phenobarbital, secobarbital, securinine, gabazine thiopental), bamaluzole, gaba, gabob, gaboxadol, ibotenic acid, isoguvacine, isonipecotic acid, muscimol, phenibut, picamilon, progabide, quisqualamine, sl 75102, thiomuscimol, positive allosteric modulators (pams) (e.g., alcohols, such as ethanol and isopropanol; avermectins, such as ivermectin; benzodiazepines, such as diazepam, alprazolam, chlordiazepoxide, clonazepam, flunitrazepam, lorazepam, midazolam, oxazepam, prazepam, brotizolam, triazolam, estazolam, lormetazepam, nitrazepam, temazepam, flurazepam, clorazepate halazepam, prazepam, nimetazapem, adinazolam, and climazolam; bromides, such as potassium bromide; carbamates, such as meprobamate and carisoprodol; chloralose; chlormezanone; chlomethiazole; dihydroergolines, such as ergoloid; etazepine; etifoxine; imidazoles, such as etomidate; imidazopyridines, such as alpidem and necopdiem; kavalactones; loreclezole; neuroactive steroids, such as allogregnanolone, pregnanolone, dihydrodeoxycorticosterone, tetrahydrodeoxycortisosterone, androstenol, androsterone, etiocholanolone, 3α- androstanediol, 5α, 5β, or 3α- dihydroprogesterone, and ganaxolone; nonbenzodiazepines, such as zalepon, zolpidem, zopiclone, and eszopiclone; petrichloral; phenols, such as propofol; piperidinediones, such as glutethimide and methyprylon; propanidid; pyrazolopyridines, such as etazolate; pyrazolopyrimidines, such as divapln and fasiplon; cyclopyrrolones, sush as pagoclone and suproclone; β- cabolines, such as abecarnil and geodecarnil; quinazolinones, such as methaqualone; scutellaria constituents; stiripentol; sulfonylalkanes, such as sulfonomethane, teronal, and trional; valerian constituents, such as valeric acid and valerenic acid; and gases, such as chloral hydrate, chloroform, homotaurine, diethyl ether, and sevoflurane. GABA_(B) 1,4-butanediol, baclofen, GABA, CGP-35348, homotaurine, Gabamide, GABOB, gamma- phaclofen, saclofen, and SCH- butyrolactone, gamma- 50911 hydroxybutyric acid, gamma- hyrdoxyvaleric acid, gamma- valerolactone, isovaline, lesogaberan, phenibut, picamilon, progabide, homotaurine, SL-75102, tolgabide GABA_(A)-ρ CACA, CAMP, GABA, GABOB, Gabazine, gaboxadol, N4-chloroacetylcytosine isonipecotic acid, SKF-97,541, arabinoside, picamilon, and (1,2,5,6-Tetrahydropyridin-4- progabide, tolgabide, and yl)methylphosphinic acid neuroactive steroids, such as allopregnanolone, THDOC, and alphaxolone

TABLE 2E MUSCARINC AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS Receptor Agonist Antagonist Chrm1 AF102B, AF150(S), AF267B, Atropine, dicycloverine, acetylcholine, carbachol, hyoscyamine, ipratropium, cevimeline, muscarine, mamba toxin muscarinic toxin 7 oxotremorine, pilocarpine, (MT7)^(,) olanzapine, oxybutynin, vedaclidine, 77-LH-28-1, CDD- pirenzepine, telenzepine, and 0097, mcn-A-343, L689,660, and tolterodine xanomeline Chrm2 Acetylcholine, methacholine, Atropine, dicycloverine, iper-8-naph, berbine, and hyoscyamine, otenzepad, AQRA- (2S,2′R,3′S,5′R)-1-methyl-2-(2- 741, AFDX-384, thorazine, methyl-1,3-oxathiolan-5- diphenhydramine, yl)pyrrolidine 3-sulfoxide methyl dimenhydrinate, ipratropium, iodide oxybutynin, pirenzepine, methoctramine, tripitramine, gallamine, and tolterodine Chrm3 Acetylcholine, bethanechol, Atropine, dicycloverine, carbachol, L689, 660, hyoscyamine, alcidium bromide, oxotremorine, pilocarpine, 4-DAMP, darifenacin, DAU-5884, aceclidine, arecoline, and HL-031,120, ipratropium, J- cevimeline 104,129, oxybutynin, tiotropium, zamifenacin, and tolterodine Chrm4 Acetylcholine, carbachol, and AFDX-384, dicycloverine, oxotremorine), and Chrm5 himbacine, mamba toxin 3, PD- agonists (e.g., acetylcholine, 102,807, PD-0298029, and milameline, sabcomeline tropicamide Chrm5 Acetylcholine, milameline, VU-0488130, xanomeline sabcomeline Non-selective Scopolamine, hydroxyzine, doxylamine, dicyclomine, flavoxate, cyclopentolate, atropine methonitrate, trihexyphenidyl/benzhexol, solifenacin, benzatropine, mebeverine, and procyclidine

TABLE 2F NICOTINIC AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS Receptor Agonist Antagonist Chrna receptors Choline, acetylcholine, Turbocurarine, bupropion, carbachol, methacholine, mecamylamine, 18- nicotine, varenicline tartrate, methozycoronaridine, galantamine hydrobromide, hexamethonium, trimethaphan, suxamethonium chloride atraciurium, doxacurium, (succinylcholine chloride), mivacurium, pancuronium, epibatidine, iobeline, vecuronium, succinylcholine, decamethonium, dextromethorphan, neramexane, isopronicline/TC-1734/AZD3480 dextrophan, and 3- (TC-1734), AZD1446 (TC-6683), methoxymorphinan TC-5619, TC-5214, MEM 3454 (RG3487), ABT-894, ABT-560, EVP-6124, EVP-4473, PNU- 282987, AR-R17779, SSR 189711, JN403, ABBF, PHA- 543613, SEN12333, GTS- 21/DMXB-A, AZD0328, A- 582941, ABT-418, 5-iodo-A- 85380, SIB-1765F, ABT-089, and ABT-594

TABLE 2G SEROTONIN AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS Receptor Agonist Antagonist 5-HT_(1A) Azapirones, such as alnespirone, Pindolol, tertatolol, alprenolol, binosperone, buspirone, AV-965, BMY-7,378, enilospirone, etapirone, geprione, cyanopindolol, dotarizine, ipsaprione, revospirone, flopropione, GR-46,611, zalospirone, perospirone, iodocyanopindolol, isamoltane, tiosperone, umespirone, and lecozotan, mefway, methiothepin, tandospirone; 8-OH-DPAT, methysergide, MPPF, NAN-190, befiradol, F-15,599, lesopitron, oxprenolol, pindobind, MKC-242, LY-283,284, propanolol, risperidone, osemozotan, repinotan, U- robalzotan, SB-649,915, SDZ- 92,016-A, RU-24969, 2C-B, 2C- 216,525, spiperone, spiramide, E, 2C-T-2, aripiprazole, spiroxatrine, UH-301, WAY- asenapine, bacoside, befiradol, 100,135, WAY-100,635, and brexpiprazole, bufotenin, xylamidine cannabidiol, and fibanserin 5-HT_(1B) Triptans, such as sumatriptan, Methiothepin, yohimbine, rizatriptan, eletriptan, donitripatn, metergoline, aripiprazole, almotriptan, frovatriptan, isamoltane, AR-A000002, SB- avitriptan, zolmitriptan, and 216,641, SB-224,289, GR- naratriptan; ergotamine, 5- 127,935, SB-236,057 carboxamidotryptamine, CGS- 12066A, CP-93,129, CP-94,253, CP-122,288, CP-135,807, RU- 24969, vortioxetine, ziprasidone, and asenapine 5-HT_(1D) Triptans, such as sumatriptan, Ziprasidone, methiothepin, rizatriptan, and naratriptan; yohimbine, metergoline, ergotamine, 5- ergotamine, BRL-15572, (nonyloxy)tryptaime, 5-(t-butyl)- vortioxetine, GR-127,935, LY- N-methyltryptamine, CP-286,601, 310,762, LY-367,642, LY- PNU-109,291, PNU-142,633, 456,219, and LY-456,220 GR-46611, L-694,247, L- 772,405, CP-122,288, and CP- 135,807 5-HT_(1E) BRL-54443, eletriptan 5-HT_(1F) LY-334,370, 5-n-butyryloxy-DMT, BRL-54443, eletriptan, LY- 344,864, naratriptan, and lasmiditan 5-HT_(2A) 25I-NBOH, 25I-nbome, (R)-DOI, Cyproheptadine, methysergide, TCB-2, mexamine, O-4310, quetiapine, nefazodone, PHA-57378, OSU-6162, 25CN- olanzapine, asenapine, pizotifen, NBOH, juncosamine, efavirenz, LY-367,265, AMDA, hydroxyzine, mefloquine, lisuride, and 2C-B 5-meo-nbpbrt, and niaprazine 5-HT_(2B) Fenfluramine, pergolide, Agomelatine, aripiprazole, cabergoline, mefloquine, BW- sarpogrelate, lisuride, tegaserod, 723C86, Ro60-0175, VER-3323, metadoxine, RS-127,445, SDZ 6-APB, guanfacine, SER-082, EGIS-7625, PRX- norfenfluramine, 5-meo-DMT, 08066, SB-200,646, SB-204,741, DMT, mcpp, aminorex, SB-206,553, SB-215,505, SB- chlorphentermine, MEM, MDA, 228,357, LY-266,097, and LY- LSD, psilocin, MDMA 272,015 5-HT_(2C) Lorcaserin, lisuride, A-372,159, Agomelatine, CPC, eltoprazine, AL-38022A, CP-809,101, etoperidone, fluoxetine, FR- fenfluramine, mesulergine, MK- 260,010, LU AA24530, 212, naphthyllisopropylamine, methysergide, nefazodone, norfenfluramine, ORG-12,962, norfluoxetine, O- ORG-37,684, oxaflozane, PNU- desmethyltramadol, RS-102,221, 22395, PNU-181731, SB-200,646, SB-221,284, SB- lysergamides, phenethylamines, 242,084, SDZ SER-082, piperazines, tryptamines, Ro60- tramadol, and trazodone 0175, vabicaserin, WAY-629, WAY-161,503, WAY-163,909, and YM-348 5-HT_(2A/2C) Ketanserin, risperidone, trazodone, mirtazapine, clozapine 5-HT₃ 2-methyl-5-HT, alpha- Dolasetron, granisetron, methyltryptamine, bufotenin, ondansetron, palonosetron, chlorophenylbiguanide, ethanol, tropisetron, alosetron, ibogaine, phenylbiguanide, cilanosetron, mirtazapine, AS- quipazine, RS-56812, SR-57227, 8112, bantopride, varenicline, and YM-31636 metroclopramide, renzapride, zacopride, mianserin, vortioxetine, clozapine, olanzapine, quetiapine, menthol, thujone, lamotigrine, and 3- tropanyl indole-3-carboxylate 5-HT₄ Cisapride, tegaserod, Piboserod, GR-113,808, GR- prucalopride, BIMU-8, CJ- 125,487, RS-39604, SB-203,186, 033,466, ML-10302, mosapride, SB-204,070, and chamomile renzapride, RS-67506, RS- 67333, SL65.1055, zacopride, metoclopramide, and sulpride 5-HT_(5A) Valeronic acid ASP-5736, AS-2030680, AS- 2674723, latrepiridine, risperidone, and SB-699,551 5-HT₆ EMDT, WAY-181,187, WAY- ALX-1161, AVN-211, BVT-5182, 208,466, N-(inden-5- BVT-74316, cerlapiridine, EGIS- yl)imidazothiazole-5-sulfonamide, 12233, idalopiridine, interpridine, E-6837, E-6801, and EMD- latrepiridine, MS-245, PRX- 386,088 07034, SB-258,585, SB-271,046, SB-357,134, SB-339,885, Ro 04- 6790, Ro-4368554, sertindole, olanzapine, asenapine, clozapine, rosa rugosa extract, and WAY-255315 5-HT₇ AS-19, 5-CT, 5-meot, 8-OH- Amisulpride, amitriptyline, DAPT, aripiprazole, E-55888, E- amoxapine, clomipramine, 57431, LP-12, LP-44, MSD-5a, clozapine, DR-4485, RA-7, and N,N- fluphenazine, fluperlapine, ICI Dimethyltryptamine 169,369, imipramine, ketanserine, JNJ-18038683, loxapine, lurasidone, LY- 215,840, maprotiline, methysergide, mesulergine, mianserin, olanzepine, pimozide, ritanserin, SB-258,719, SB- 258,741, SB-269,970, SB- 656,104-A, SB-691,673, sertindole, spiperone, tenilapine, TFMPP, vortioxetine, trifluoperazine, ziprasidone, and zotepine Non-selective Chlorpromazine, cyproheptadine, 5-HT antagonists pizotifen, oxetorone, spiperone, ritanserin, parachlorophenylalanine, metergoline, propranolol, mianserin, carbinoxamine, methdilazine, promethazine, pizotifen, oxatomide, feverfew, fenclonin, and reserpine

TABLE 2H GLUATAMATE RECEPTOR AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS Receptor Agonist Antagonist Ionotropic AMPA, glutamic acid, ibotenic AP5, AP7, cppene, selfotel, HU- (GRIA-14, GRIK1-5, acid, kainic acid, NMDA, 211, Huperzine A, gabapentin, and GRIN1-3B) quisqualic acid remacemide, amantadine, atomoxetine, AZD6765, agmatine, chloroform, dextrallorphan, dextromethorphan, dextrorphan, diphenidine, dizocilpine (MK- 801), ethanol, eticyclidine, gacyclidine, ibogaine, ifenprodil, ketamine, kynurenic acid, memantine, magnesium, methoxetamine, nitromemantine, nitrous oxide, PD-137889, perampanel, phencyclidine, rolicyclidine, tenocyclidine, methoxydine, tiletamine, neramexane, eliprodil, etoxadrol, dexoxadrol, WMS-2539, NEFA, delucemine, 8A-PDHQ, aptiganel, rhynchophylline Metabotropic L-ap4, acpd, l-qa, chpg, ly- AIDA, fenobam, MPEP, LY- (GRM1-8) 379,268, ly-354,740, acpt, vu 367,385, EGLU, CPPG, MAP4, 0155041 MSOP, LY-341,495 Glycine Rapastinel, NRX-1074, 7- antagonists chlorokynurenic acid, 4- chlorokynurenine, 5,7- dichlorokynurenic acid, kynurenic acid, TK-40, 1- aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acid (ACPC), L-phenylalanine, and xenon

TABLE 2I HISTAMINE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS Receptor Agonist Antagonist Non-selective Histamine dihydrochloride, HTMT dimaleate, 2-pyridylethlyamine dihydrochloride H₁ Acrivastine, azelastine, astemizole, bilastine, bromodiphenhydramine, brompheniramine, buclizine, carbinoxamine, cetirizine, cetirizine dihydrochloride, clemastine fumarate, clemizole hydrochloride, chlorodiphenhydramine, chlorphenamine, chlorpromazine, clemastine, cyclizine, cyproheptadine, dexbrompheniramine, dexchlorpheniramine, dimenhydrinate, dimethindene maleate, dimetindene, diphenhydramine, diphenhydramine hydrochloride, doxepin hydrochloride, doxylamine, ebastine, embramine, fexofenadine, fexofenadine hydrochloride, hydroxyzine, ketotifen fumarate, loratadine, meclizine, meclizine dihydrochloride, mepyramine maleate, mirtazapine, olopatadine, olopatadine hydrochloride, orphenadrine, phenindamine, pheniramine, phenyltoloxamine, promethazine, quetiapine, rupatadine, terfenadine, tripelennamine, zotepine, trans- triprolidine hydrochloride, and triprolidine H₁ inverse agonists Cetirizine, levocetirizine, desloratadine, and pyrilamine H₂ Betazole, impromidine, dimaprit Aminopotentidine, cimetidine, dihydrochloride, and amthamine famotidine, ICI 162,846, dihyrdobromide lafutidine, nizatidine, ranitidine, ranitidine hyrdochloride, roxatidine, zolantadine dimaleate, and toitidine H₃ Imetit dihydropbromide, immepip Clobenpropit, clobenpropit dihyrdrobromide, immethridine dihydrobromide, A 3314440 dihydrobromide, α- dihyrdochloride, BF 2649 Methylhistamine dihydrobromide, hydrochloride, carcinine N-methylhistamine ditrifluoroacetate, ABT-239, dihydrochloride, proxyfan ciprofaxin, conessine, GT 2016, oxalate, and betahistine A-349,821, impentamine dihydrobromide, iodophenpropit dihydrobromide, JNJ 10181457 dihydrochloride, JNJ 5207852 dihydrochloride, ROS 234 dioxalate, SEN 12333, VUF 5681 dihydrobromide, and thioperamide H₄ Imetit dihydropbromide, immepip Thioperamide, JNJ 7777120, A dihyrdrobromide, 4- 943931 dihydrochloride, A methylhistamine dihydrochloride, 987306, JNJ 10191584 maleate, clobenpropit dihydrobromide, and VUF-6002 VUF 10460, and VUF 8430 dihydrobromide

TABLE 2J CANNABINOID AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS Receptor Agonist Antagonist Cannabinoid receptor (non- Anandamide, N-Arachidonoyl selective) dopamine, 2- Arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), 2- Arachidonyl glyceryl ether, Δ-9- Tetrahydrocannabinol, EGCG, Yangonin, AM-1221, AM-1235, AM-2232, UR-144, JWH-007, JWH-015, JWH-018, ACEA, ACPA, arvanil, CP 47497, DEA, leelamine, methanandamide, NADA, noladin ether, oleamide, CB 65, GP-1a, GP-2a, GW 405833, HU 308, JWH-133, L- 759,633, L-759,656, LEI 101, MDA 19, and SER 601 CB₁ receptor ACEA, ACPA, RVD-Hpα, (R)-(+)- Rimonabant, cannabidiol, Δ⁹- methanandamide tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV), taranabant, otenabant, surinabant, rosonabant, SLV- 319, AVE1625, V24343, AM 251, AM 281, AM 6545, hemopressin, LY 320135, MJ 15, CP 945598, NIDA 41020, PF 514273, SLV 319, SR 1141716A, and TC-C 14G CB₂ receptor CB 65, GP 1a, GP 2a, GW Cannabidiol, Δ⁹- 405833, HU 308, JWH 133, L- tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV), 759,656, L-759,633, SER 601, AM 630, COR 170, JTE 907, and LEI 101 SR 144528

TABLE 2K PURINERGIC RECEPTOR AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS Receptor Agonist Antagonist ADORA1 (P1 adenosine Adenosine, N6- Caffeine, theophylline, 8- receptor) Cyclopentyladenosine, N6-3- Cyclopentyl-1,3-dimethylxanthine methoxyl-4-hydroxybenzyl (CPX), 8-Cyclopentyl-1,3- adenine riboside (B2), CCPA, dipropylxanthine (DPCPX), 8- tecadenoson, selodenoson, Phenyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine, Certain Benzodiazepines and bamifylline, BG-9719, BG09928, Barbiturates, 2′-meccpa, GR FK-453, FK838, rolofylline, N- 79236, and SDZ WAG 994 0861, and PSB 36 ADORA2A (P1 adenosine Adenosine, N6-3-methoxyl-4- Caffeine, theophylline, receptor) hydroxybenzyl adenine riboside istradefylline, SCH-58261, SCH- (B2), YT-146, DPMA, UK- 442,416, ATL-444, MSX-3, 423,097, limonene, NECA, CV- preladenant, SCH-412,348, VER- 3146, binodenoson, ATL-146e, 6623, VER-6947, VER-7835, CGS-21680, and Regadenoson vipadenant, and ZM-241,385 ADORA2B (P1 adenosine Adenosine, 5′-N- Caffeine, theophylline, CVT- receptor) ethylcarboxamidoadenosine, 6883, ATL-801, compound 38, BAY 60-6583, LUF-5835, NECA, MRS-1706, MRS-1754, OSIP- (S)-PHPNECA, and LUF-5845 339,391, PSB-603, PSB-0788, and PSB-1115 ADORA3 (P1 adenosine Adenosine, 2-(1-Hexynyl)-N- Caffeine, theophylline, MRS- receptor) methyladenosine, CF-101 (IB- 1191, MRS-1220, MRS-1334, MECA), CF-102, 2-Cl-IB-MECA, MRS-1523, MRS-3777, CP-532,903, inosine, LUF-6000, MRE3008F20, MRE3005F20, and MRS-3558 OT-7999, SSR161421, KF- 26777, PSB-10, PSB-11, and VUF-5574 P2Y receptor ATP, ADP, UTP, UDP, UDP- Clopidogrel, elinogrel, prasugrel, glucose, 2-methylthioladenosine ticlopidine, ticagrelor, AR-C 5′ diphosphate (2-mesadp), 118925XX, AR-C 66096, AR-C lysophosphatidic acid, PSB 1114, 69931, AZD 1283, MRS 2179, PSB 0474, NF 546, MRS 2365, MRS 2211, MRS 2279, MRS MRS 2690, MRS 2693, MRS 2500, MRS 2578, NF 157, NF 2768, MRS 2905, MRS 2957, 340, PPADS, PPTN MRS 4062, and denufosol (P2Y₂ hydrochloride, PSD 0739, SAR agonist) 216471, and suramin P2X receptor Atp A 438079, A 740003, A 804598, A 839977, AZ 10606120, AZ 11645373, 5-BDBD, BX 430, Evans Blue, JNJ 47965567, KN- 62, NF 023, NF 110, NF 157, NF 279, NF 449, PPADS, iso- PPADS, PPNDS, Ro 0437626, Ro 51, RO-3, TC-P 262, suramin, TNP-ATP, and P2X₇ antagonists NF279, calmidazolium, and KN- 62

TABLE 2L NEUROPEPTIDE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS Gene Agonist Antagonist Neuropeptide Y receptor (non- Neuropeptide Y, pancreatic selective) polypeptide, BWX-46, and Peptide YY Neuropeptide Y₁ receptor BVD-10, GR-231,118, BIBO- 3304, BIBP-3226, PD-160,170, and BMS 193885 Neuropeptide Y₂ receptor BIIE-0246, CYM 9484, JNJ 5207787, and SF 11 Neuropeptide Y₄ receptor UR-AK49 and GR-231,118 Neuropeptide Y₅ receptor Lu AA-33810, CGP 71683 hydrochloride, GW 438014A, L- 152,804, NPY 5RA972, NTNCB hydrochloride, velneperit, and S 25585 Somatostatin receptor Somatostatin, cortistatin, Cyclomastatin and CYN 154806 octreotide, lanreotide CH 275, TT 232, TC-G 1003, seglitide, RC 160, NNC 26-9100, L-817,818, L- 803,087 trifluoroacetate, and (1R,1′S,3′R/1R,1′R,3′S)-L- 054,264 CGRP receptor (calcitonin gene- A-CGRP, β-CGRP, calcitonin, Telcagepant, sumatriptan related peptide receptor) PHM 27, amylin, pramlintide, (decreases CGRP promoter CRSP-1, and SUN-B 8155 activity), MK-3207, and BIBN 4096 BS, MK-0974 Tachykinin 1 receptor (NK₁ Substance P, GR-73632, and Aprepitant, Casopitant, receptor) C14TKL-1 Ezlopitant, Fosaprepitant, Lanepitant, Maropitant, Vestipitant, L-733,060, L- 741,671, L-742,694, RP-67580, RPR-100,893, CP-96345, CP- 99994, GR-205,171, TAK-637, FK 888, GR 82334, L-760,735, L- 732,138, L-733,060, SDZ NKT 343, Spantide 1, SR 140333, and T-2328 Tachykinin 2 receptor (NK₂ Neurokinin A and GR-64349 Ibodutant, saredutant, GR- receptor) 159,897, GR 94800, MDL 29,913, and MEN 11420, MEN- 10376 Tachykinin 3 receptor (NK₃ Neurokinin B and senktide Fezolinetant, MLE-4901, receptor) Osanetant, Talnetant, SB- 222,200, SSR 146977, and SB- 218,795 Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide VIP, PACAP, PACAP-38, VIP (6-28), [D-p-Cl-Phe⁶,Leu¹²]- receptor 1 (VIPR1/VPAC1) and PACAP-27, peptide histidine VIP, and AC-Tyr¹,D-Phe²]GRF 1- Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide isoleucineamide (PHI), peptide 29 amide receptor 2 (VIPR2/VPAC2) histidine methionineamide (PHM), peptide histidine valine (PHV), and Bay 55-9837 Opioid receptor (non-selective) Dynorphins, enkephalins, endorphins, endomorphins, and nociceptin μ-opioid receptor DAMAGO, endomorphin-1, Naloxone, naltrexone, endomorphin-2, fentanyl, nalmefene, diprenorphine, loperamide, meptazinol, nalorphine, nalorphine oxycodone, PL 017, sinomenine, dinicotinate, levallorphan, and buprenorphine (partial) samidorphan, nalodeine, alvimopan, methylnaltrexone, naloxegol, 6β-naltrexol, axelopran, bevenopran, methylsamidorphan, naldemedine, buprenorphine, dezocine, eptazocine, CTAP, CTOP, cyprodime, clocinnamox mesylate, naloxonazine, funaltrexamine, and cyprodamine κ-opioid receptor Alazocine, Bremazocine, 8- 5′-Acetamidinoethylnaltrindole, Carboxamidocyclazocine, 5′-Guanidinonaltrindole, 6′- Cyclazocine, Ketazocine, Guanidinonaltrindole, Metazocine, Pentazocine, Amentoflavone, AT-076, Phenazocine, Morphinans (e.g., Binaltorphimine, BU09059, 6′-Guanidinonaltrindole, Buprenorphine, CERC-501, Butorphan, Butorphanol, Dezocine, DIPPA, jdtic, LY- Cyclorphan, Diprenorphine, 255582, LY-2459989, LY- Etorphine, Levallorphan, 2795050, Methylnaltrexone, Levomethorphan, Levorphanol, ML190, ML350, MR-2266, Morphine, Nalbuphine, Naloxone, Naltrexone, Nalfurafine, Nalmefene, Noribogaine, Norbinaltorphimine, Nalodeine, Nalorphine, Pawhuskin A, PF-4455242, Norbuprenorphine, Quadazocine, RB-64, and Norbuprenorphine-3-glucuronide, Zyklophin Oxilorphan, Oxycodone, Proxorphan, Samidorphan, and Xorphanol), Arylacetamides (e.g., Asimadoline, BRL-52537, Eluxadoline, Enadoline, GR- 89696, ICI-204,448, ICI-199,441, LPK-26, MB-1C-OH, Niravoline, N-MPPP, Spiradoline, U-50,488, U-54,494A, and U-69,593), CR665, Difelikefalin (CR845), Dynorphins (dynorphin A, dynorphin B, big dynorphin), Terpenoids (e.g., Collybolide, Erinacine E, Mentholm RB-64, Salvinorin A, and 2- Methoxymethyl salvinorin B), Apadoline, HS665, HZ-2, Ibogaine, Ketamine, Noribogaine, Pentazocine, Tifluadom, and Nalfurafine δ-opioid receptor Leu-enkephalin, Met-enkephalin, Buprenorphine, naltriben, Deltorphins I and II, DADLE, AR- naltrindole, SDM25N, ICI- M 100390, 7- 174,864, ICI-154,129, BNTX, and Spiroindanyloxymorphone, N- benzylnatrindole Phenethyl-14-ethoxymetopon, ADL-5859, BU-48, SNC-80, SNC-162, FIT, 6′-GTI, DPDPE, BW373U86, DPI-221, DPI-287, DPI-3290, TAN-67, RWJ- 394674, Norbuprenorphine, Cannabidiol, Tetrahydrocannabinol, Xorphanol, Mitragynine, and Mitragynine pseudoindoxyl NOP receptor (opioid) Orphanin, SCH-221510, NNC UFP-101, Trap 101, nocistatin, 63-0532, MCOPPB, and Ac- BAN ORL 24, J 113397, JTC RYYRWK-NH₂ 801, and SB 612111 Oxytocin receptor Carbetocin, demoxytocin, lipo- Atosiban, barusiban, epelsiban, oxytocin-1, merotocin, oxytocin, L-368,899, L-371,257, L-372- TC OT 39, and WAY-267,464 662, retosiban, SSR-126,768, and WAY-162,720 Vasopressin receptor Vasopressin and desmopressin TC OT 39, OPC 21268, SR 49059, TASP 0390325, conivaptan, tolvaptan, mozavaptan, lixivaptan, satavaptan, relcovaptan, nelivaptan, demeclocycline, and lithium

TABLE 2M NEUROTRANSMISSION MODULATORS Type Modulators Norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors Amedalin, atomoxetine, CP-39,332, daledalin, (increase adrenergic neurotransmission) edivoxetine, esreboxetine, lortalamine, nisoxetine, reboxetine, talopram, talsupram, tandamine, viloxazine, bupropion, ciclazindol, manifaxine, maprotiline, radafaxine, tapentadol, teniloxazine, protriptyline, nortriptyline, and desipramine Norepineprhine-dopamine reuptake inhibitors Amineptine, bupropion, desoxypipradrol, (increase adrenergic and dopamine dexmethylphenidate, difemetorex, diphenylprolinol, neurotransmission) ethylphenidate, fencamfamine, fencamine, lefetamine, methylenedioxypyrovalerone, methylphenidate, nomifensine, O-2172, oxolinic acid, pipradrol, prolintane, pyrovalerone, tametraline, and WY-46824 Serotonin-norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake Mazindol, nefazodone, sibutramine, venlafaxine, inhibitors (SNDRIs) and serotonin-norepinephrine esketamine, duloxetine, ketamine, phencyclidine, reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) tripelennamine, mepiprazole, amitifadine, AN788, (increase adrengergic, dopamine, and serotonin ansofaxine, centanafadine, atomoxetine, neurotransmission) desvenlafaxine, milnacipran, levomilnacipran, dasotraline, Lu AA34893, Lu AA37096, NS-2360, tedatioxetine, tesofensine, bicifadine, BMS- 866,949, brasofensine, diclofensine, DOV-216,303, EXP-561, liafensine, NS-2359, RG-7166, SEP- 227,162, SEP-228,425, SEP-228,432, naphyrone, 3,3-Diphenylcyclobutanamine, 3,4- Dichlorotametraline, D-161, desmethylsertraline, DMNPC, DOV-102,677, fezolamine, GSK1360707F, indatraline, JNJ-7925476, JZ-IV- 10, JZAD-IV-22, LR-5182, methylnaphthidate, MI-4, PRC200-SS, PRC050, PRC025, SKF-83,959, TP1, phenyltropanes (e.g., WF-23, dichloropane, and RTI-55), Ginkgo biloba extract, St John's Wort, hyperforin, adhyperforin, and uliginosin B Dopamine reuptake inhibitors Dopamine reuptake inhbiitors (e.g., altropane, (increase dopamine neurotransmission) amfonelic acid, amineptine, BTCP, 3C-PEP, DBL- 583, difluoropine, GBR-12783, GBR-12935, GBR- 13069, GBR-13098, GYKI-52895, lometopane, methylphenidate, ethylphenidate, modafinil, armodafinil, RTI-229, vanoxerine, adrafinil, benztropine, bupropion, fluorenol, medifoxamine, metaphit, rimcazole, venlafaxine, Chaenomeles speciosa, and oroxylin A), dopamine releasing agents (e.g., p-Tyramine), dextroamphetamine, lisdexamfetamine, dexmethylphenidate, and cathinone Dopamine prodrugs Levopoda, docarpamine (increase dopamine neurotransmission) GABA reuptake inhibitors CL-996, deramciclane, gabaculine, guvacine, (increase GABA neurotransmission) nipecotic acid, NNC-711, NNC 05-2090, SKF- 89976A, SNAP-5114, tiagabine, and hyperforin GABA analogs Gabapentin, butyric acid, valproic acid, valpromide, (increase GABA neurotransmission) valnoctamide, 3-hydroxybutanal, GHB, sodium, oxybate, aceburic acid, GBL, GHBAL, GHV, GVL, GHC, GCL, HOCPCA, UMB68, pregabalin, tolibut, phaclofen, sacolfen, arecaidine, gaboxadol, isonipecotic acid, 3-Methyl-GABA, AABA, BABA, DAVA, GAVA, Glutamic acid, hopantenic acid, piracetam, and vigabatrin GABA prodrugs L-Glutamine, N-Isonicotinoyl-GABA, picamilon, (increase GABA neurotransmission) progabide, tolgabide Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors Carbamates, physostigmine, neostigmine, (increase nicotinic and muscarinic pyridostigmine, ambenonium, demecarium, neurotransmission) rivastigmine, phenanthrene derivatives, galantamine, caffeine, rosmarinic acid, alpha- pinene, piperidines, donepezil, tacrine, edrophonium, Huperzine A, ladostigil, ungeremine, lactucopicrin, dyflos, echothiophate, parathion, and quasi-irreversible acetylcholinesterase inhibitors Serotonin reuptake inhibitors Alaproclate, cericlamine, citalopram, dapoxetine, (increase serotonin neurotransmission) escitalopram, femoxetine, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, ifoxetine, indalpine, omiloxetine, panuramine, paroxetine, pirandamine, RTI-353, sertraline, zimelidine, desmethylcitalopram, didesmethylcitalopram, seproxetine ((S)- norfluoxetine), desvenlafaxine, cianopramine, litoxetine, lubazodone, SB-649,915, trazodone, vilazodone, vortioxetine, dextromethorphan, dextropropoxyphene, dimenhydrinate, diphenhydramine, mepyramine (pyrilamine), mifepristone, delucemine, mesembrenone, mesembrine, roxindole, duloxetine, levomilnacipran, milnacipran, dapoxetine, sibutramine, chlorpheniramine, dextropmethorphan, and methadone Serotonin releasing agents Chlorphentermine, cloforex, dexfenfluramine, (increase serotonin neurotransmission) etolorex, fenfluramine, flucetorex, indeloxazine, levofenfluramine, tramadol, carbamazepine, amiflamine (FLA-336), viqualine (PK-5078), 2- Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (2-Methyl- MDA), 3-Methoxy-4-methylamphetamine (MMA), 3- Methyl-4,5-methylenedioxyamphetamine (5-Methyl- MDA), 3,4-Ethylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine (EDMA), 4-Methoxyamphetamine (PMA), 4- Methoxy-N-ethylamphetamine (PMEA), 4-Methoxy- N-methylamphetamine (PMMA), 4- Methylthioamphetamine (4-MTA), 5-(2- Aminopropyl)-2,3-dihydrobenzofuran (5-APDB), 5- Indanyl-2-aminopropane (IAP), 5-Methoxy-6- methylaminoindane (MMAI), 5-Trifluoromethyl-2- aminoindane (TAI), 5,6-Methylenedioxy-2- aminoindane (MDAI), 5,6-Methylenedioxy-N- methyl-2-aminoindane (MDMAI), 6-Chloro-2- aminotetralin (6-CAT), 6-Tetralinyl-2-aminopropane (TAP), 6,7-Methylenedioxy-2-aminotetralin (MDAT), 6,7-Methylenedioxy-N-methyl-2-aminotetralin (MDMAT), N-Ethyl-5-trifluoromethyl-2-aminoindane (ETAI), N-Methyl-5-indanyl-2-aminopropane, aminorex, MDMA, MDEA, MDA, MBDB, and tryptamines, such as DMT, αmt, 5meo-NMT, NMT, NETP, Dimethyl-Serotonin, 5meo-NET, αet and αmt Excitatory amino acid reuptake inhibitors Didydrokanic acid, WAY-213,613, L-trans-2,4-PDC, (increase Glutamate receptor neurotransmission) amphetamine, and L-Theanine Glycine reuptake inhibitors Bitopertin, Org 24598, Org 25935, ALX-5407, (increase Glutamate receptor neurotransmission) sacrosine, Org 25543, and N-arachidonylglycerine Histidine decarboxylase inhibitors Tritoqualine, catechin (decrease histamine neurotransmission) Endocannabinoid enhancers AM404, fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibitors (e.g., (increase cannabinoid neurotransmission) AM374, ARN2508, BIA 10-2472, BMS-469908, CAY-10402, JNJ-245, JNJ-1661010, JNJ- 28833155, JNJ-40413269, JNJ-42119779, JNJ- 42165279, MK-3168, MK-4409, MM-433593, OL- 92, OL-135, PF-622, PF-750, PF-3845, PF- 04457845, PF-04862853, RN-450, SA-47, SA-73, SSR-411298, ST-4068, TK-25, URB524, URB597, URB694, URB937, VER-156084, and V-158866 Monoacylglycerol lipase inhibitors N-arachidonoyl maleimide, JZL184 (increase cannabinoid neurotransmission) Endocannabinoid transporter inhibitors Sb-fi-26 (increase cannabinoid neurotransmission) Endocannabinoid reuptake inhibitors AM404, AM1172, LY-2183240, O-2093, OMDM-2, (increase cannabinoid neurotransmission) UCM-707, VDM-11, guineensine, ETI-T-24_B_I, WOBE437, and RX-055 Adenosine uptake inhibitors Cilostazol, dilazep, and dipyramidole (increase purinergic neurotransmission) Nucleoside transporter inhibitors 8MDP, Decynium 22, 5-iodotubercidin, NBMPR, (increase purinergic neurotransmission) and TC-T 6000

Neurotoxins

In some embodiments, the neurotransmission modulator is a neurotoxin (e.g., a neurotoxin listed in Table 3), or a functional fragment or variant thereof. Neurotoxins include, without limitation, convulsants, nerve agents, parasympathomimetics, and uranyl compounds. Neurotoxins may be bacterial in origin, or fungal in origin, or plant in origin, or derived from a venom or other natural product. Neurotoxins may be synthetic or engineered molecules, derived de novo or from a natural product. Suitable neurotoxins include but are not limited to botulinum toxin and conotoxin. Exemplary neurotoxins are listed in Table 3.

TABLE 3 NEUROTOXINS NEUROTOXINS 2,4,5-Trihydroxyamphetamine 2,4,5-Trihydroxymethamphetamine 3,4-Dichloroamphetamine 5,7-Dihydroxytryptamine 5-Iodowillardiine Ablomin Aconitine Aconitum Aconitum anthora AETX Agelenin Agitoxin Aldrin Alpha-Methyldopamine Alpha-neurotoxin Altitoxin Anatoxin-a Androctonus australis hector insect toxin Anisatin Anthopleurin Antillatoxin Anuroctoxin Apamin Arum italicum Arum maculatum Babycurus toxin 1 Batrachotoxin BDS-1 Bestoxin Beta-Methylamino-L-alanine BgK Birtoxin BmKAEP BmTx3 BotlT2 BotlT6 Botulinum toxin Brevetoxin Bukatoxin Butantoxin Calcicludine Calciseptine Calitoxin Caramboxin Carbon disulfide CgNa toxin Charybdotoxin Cicutoxin Ciguatoxin Cll1 Clostridium botulinum Conantokins Conhydrine Coniine Conotoxin Contryphan CssII CSTX Curare Cyanide poisoning Cylindrospermopsin Cypermethrin Delta atracotoxin Dendrotoxin Dieldrin Diisopropyl fluorophosphates Dimethylmercury Discrepin Domoic acid Dortoxin DSP-4 Ergtoxin Falcarinol Fenpropathrin Gabaculine Ginkgotoxin Grammotoxin Grayanotoxin Hainantoxin Halcurin Hefutoxin Helothermine Heteroscodratoxin-1 Histrionicotoxin Homoquinolinic acid Hongotoxin Huwentoxin Ibotenic acid Ikitoxin Inhibitor cystine knot Jingzhaotoxin Kainic acid Kaliseptine Kappa-bungarotoxin Kodaikanal mercury poisoning Kurtoxin Latrotoxin Lq2 Maitotoxin Margatoxin Maurotoxin Mercury (element) Methanol Methiocarb MPP+ MPTP Nemertelline Neosaxitoxin Nicotine N-Methylconiine Oenanthotoxin Oxalyldiaminopropionic acid Oxidopamine Oxotoxin Pahutoxin Palytoxin Pandinotoxin Para-Bromoamphetamine Para-Chloroamphetamine Para-Chloromethamphetamine Para-Iodoamphetamine Penitrem A Phaiodotoxin Phenol Phoneutria nigriventer toxin-3 Phrixotoxin Polyacrylamide Poneratoxin Psalmotoxin Pumiliotoxin Quinolinic acid Raventoxin Resiniferatoxin Samandarin Saxitoxin Scyllatoxin Sea anemone neurotoxin Slotoxin SNX-482 Stichodactyla toxin Taicatoxin Taipoxin Tamapin Tertiapin Tetanospasmin Tetraethylammonium Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine Tetrodotoxin Tityustoxin Tricresyl phosphate TsIV Vanillotoxin Veratridine

Neurotransmission modulators also include antibodies that bind to neurotransmitters or neurotransmitter receptors listed in Tables 1A, 1B, Table 7, and Table 8 and decrease neurotransmission. These antibodies include blocking and neutralizing antibodies. Antibodies to neurotransmitters or neurotransmitter receptors listed in Tables 1A, 1B, Table 7, and Table 8 can be generated by those of skill in the art using well established and routine methods.

Neuropeptide Signaling Modulators

In some embodiments, a neuromodulating agent is a neuropeptide signaling modulator (e.g., an agent that increases or decreases neuropeptide signaling), such as a blocker or agonist of a neuropeptide receptor listed in Table 1A. Neuromodulating agents that increase neuropeptide signaling include neuropeptides and neuropeptide receptors (e.g., a neuropeptide (ligand) listed in Table 1A, Table 1B, or Table 7, e.g., a neuropeptide having the sequence referenced by accession number or Entrez Gene ID of a neuropeptide listed in Table 1A, Table 1B, or Table 7, or an analog thereof, e.g., a sequence having at least 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 98%, 99% identity to the sequence referenced by accession number or Entrez Gene ID. The neuromodulating agent can be an endocannabinoid, amine, amino acid, purine, gas, gastrin, opioid, monoamine, secretin, tachykinin, neuropeptide, neurohypophyseal, orexin, or somatostatin, e.g., listed in Table 1B. In some embodiments, neuropeptide signaling is increased by administering, locally delivering, or stabilizing a neuropeptide listed in Tables 1A, 1B, or encoded by a gene in Table 7. Neuromodulating agents that increase neuropeptide signaling also include agents that increase neuropeptide receptor activity (e.g., neuromodulating agents that increase the activity of a neuropeptide receptor or signaling protein listed in Table 1 A or encoded by a gene in Table 7 via upregulation, stabilization, agonism, or overexpression). Exemplary neuropeptide agonists are listed in Table 2A and 2L. Neuromodulating agents that increase neuropeptide signaling also include agents that reduce neuropeptide degradation or reuptake, agents that increase neuropeptide synthesis or release (e.g., agents that increase the activity of a biosynthetic protein encoded by a gene in Table 1 A or Table 7 via stabilization, overexpression, or upregulation), increase neuropeptide receptor synthesis or membrane insertion, and regulate neuropeptide receptor conformation (e.g., agents that bind to a receptor and keep it in an “open” or “primed” conformation). Neuropeptide signaling modulators can increase neuropeptide signaling by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 98% or more.

Neuromodulating agents that decrease neuropeptide signaling include agents that decrease neuropeptide receptor activity (e.g., neuromodulating agents that decrease the activity of a neuropeptide receptor or signaling protein listed in Table 1A or encoded by a gene in Table 7 via blockade, antagonism, or downregulation). Exemplary neuropeptide antagonists are listed in Table 2A or 2L. Neuromodulating agents that decrease neuropeptide signaling also include agents that bind to neuropeptides or block their interaction with receptors (e.g., neuropeptide blocking or neutralizing antibodies), agents that increase neuropeptide degradation or clearance, agents that decrease neuropeptide synthesis or release (e.g., agents that decrease the activity of a biosynthetic protein encoded by a gene in Table 1 A or Table 7 via inhibition or downregulation), decrease neuropeptide receptor synthesis or membrane insertion, and regulate neuropeptide receptor conformation (e.g., agents that bind to a receptor and keep it in a “closed” or “inactive” conformation). In some embodiments, neuropeptide signaling is decreased by sequestering, blocking, antagonizing, or degrading a neuropeptide listed in Tables 1A, 1B, or encoded by a gene in Table 7. Neuropeptide signaling modulators can decrease neuropeptide signaling by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 98% or more.

Neuropeptide signaling modulators also include antibodies that bind to neuropeptides or neuropeptide receptors listed in Tables 1A, 1B, and Table 7 and decrease neuropeptide signaling. These antibodies include blocking and neutralizing antibodies. Exemplary neuropeptide signaling blocking and neutralizing antibodies are listed below in Table 4. Antibodies to neuropeptides and neuropeptide receptors listed in Tables 1A, 1B, and Table 7 can also be generated by those of skill in the art using well established and routine methods.

TABLE 4 NEUROPEPTIDE AND NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR ANTIBODIES Neuropeptide or Neuropeptide Receptor Antibody Company CGRP LY2951742 Eli Lilly (Galcanezumab) CGRP ALD-403 Alder Biopharmaceuticals CGRP TEV-48125 (LBR-101) Teva Pharmaceuticals CGRP AMG 334 Amgen Glucagon REGN1193 Regeneron

Neuronal Growth Factor Modulators

In some embodiments, a neuromodulating agent is a neuronal growth factor modulator (e.g., an agent that decreases or increases neurogenic/axonogenic signals, e.g., a neuronal growth factor or neuronal growth factor mimic, or an agonist or antagonist of a neuronal growth factor or neuronal growth factor receptor). For example, the neuromodulating agent is a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 1C or Table 7, e.g., a neuronal growth factor having the sequence referenced by accession number or Entrez Gene ID in Table 10 or Table 7, or an analog thereof, e.g., a sequence having at least 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 90%, 98%, 99% identity to the sequence referenced by accession number or Entrez Gene ID in Table 10 or Table 7. Neuronal growth factor modulators also include agonists and antagonists of neuronal growth factors and neuronal growth factor receptors listed in Table 1C or Table 7. A neuronal growth factor modulator may increase or decrease neurogenesis, neuronal growth, neuronal differentiation, neurite outgrowth, synapse formation, synaptic maturation, synaptic refinement, or synaptic stabilization. Neuronal growth factor modulators regulate innervation and the formation of synaptic connections between two or more neurons and between neurons and non-neural cells. A neuronal growth factor modulator may block one or more of these processes (e.g., through the use of antibodies that block neuronal growth factors or their receptors) or promote one or more of these processes (e.g., through the use of neuronal growth factors or analogs thereof). Neuronal growth factor modulators can increase or decrease one of the above mentioned processes by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 98%, 200%, 500% or more.

In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent decreases neurogenic/axonogenic signals, e.g., the method includes administering to the subject or contacting a cell with a neuromodulating agent (e.g., a neuronal growth factor modulator) in an amount and for a time sufficient to decrease neurogenesis or axonogenesis. For example, the neuromodulating agent that leads to a decrease in neurogenesis or axonogenesis is a blocking or neutralizing antibody against a neurotrophic factor. Relevant neurotrophic factors include NGF, BDNF, ProNGF, Sortilin, TGFβ and TGFβ family ligands and receptors (e.g., TGFβR1, TGFβR2, TGFβ1, TGFβ2 TGFβ4), GFRα family ligands and receptors (e.g., GFRα1, GFRα2, GFRα3, GFRα4, GDNF), CNTF, LIF, neurturin, artemin, persephin, neurotrophin, chemokines, cytokines, and others listed in Table 1C or Table 7. Receptors for these factors can also be targeted, as well as downstream signaling pathways including Jak-Stat inducers, and cell cycle and MAPK signaling pathways. In some embodiments, the neuronal growth factor modulator decreases neurogenesis, axonogenesis or any of the processes mentioned above by sequestering, blocking, antagonizing, degrading, or downregulating a neuronal growth factor or a neuronal growth factor receptor listed in Table 10 or encoded by a gene in Table 7. In some embodiments, the neuronal growth factor modulator decreases neurogenesis, axonogenesis or any of the processes mentioned above by blocking or antagonizing a signaling protein encoded by a gene in Table 7 that is downstream of a neuronal growth factor. In some embodiments, the neuronal growth factor modulator decreases neurogenesis, axonogenesis or any of the processes mentioned above by blocking, disrupting, or antagonizing a synaptic or structural protein encoded by a gene in Table 7. Neurogenesis, axonogenesis, neuronal growth, neuronal differentiation, neurite outgrowth, synapse formation, synaptic maturation, synaptic refinement, or synaptic stabilization can be decreased in the subject at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% or more, compared to before the administration. Neurogenesis, axonogenesis, neuronal growth, neuronal differentiation, neurite outgrowth, synapse formation, synaptic maturation, synaptic refinement, or synaptic stabilization can be decreased in the subject between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%.

In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is one that increases neurogenic/axonogenic signals, e.g., the method includes administering to the subject or contacting a cell with a neuromodulating agent (e.g., a neuronal growth factor modulator) in an amount and for a time sufficient to increase neurogenesis or axonogenesis. For example, the neuromodulating agent that leads to an increase in neurogenesis or axonogenesis is a neurotrophic factor. Relevant neurotrophic factors include NGF, BDNF, ProNGF, Sortilin, TGFβ and TGFβ family ligands and receptors (e.g., TGFβR1, TGFβR2, TGFβ1, TGFβ2 TGFβ4), GFRα family ligands and receptors (e.g., GFRα1, GFRα2, GFRα3, GFRα4, GDNF), CNTF, LIF, neurturin, artemin, persephin, neurotrophin, chemokines, cytokines, and others listed in Table 10 or Table 7. Receptors for these factors may also be targeted, as well as downstream signaling pathways including Jak-Stat inducers, and cell cycle and MAPK signaling pathways. In some embodiments, the neuronal growth factor modulator increases neurogenesis, axonogenesis or any of the processes mentioned above by administering, locally delivering, or stabilizing a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 10 or encoded by a gene in Table 7, or by upregulating, agonizing, or stabilizing a neuronal growth factor receptor listed in Table 10 or encoded by a gene in Table 7. In some embodiments, the neuronal growth factor modulator increases neurogenesis, axonogenesis or any of the processes mentioned above by stabilizing, agonizing, overexpressing, or upregulating a signaling protein encoded by a gene in Table 7 that is downstream of a neuronal growth factor. In some embodiments, the neuronal growth factor modulator increases neurogenesis, axonogenesis or any of the processes mentioned above by stabilizing, overexpressing, or upregulating a synaptic or structural protein encoded by a gene in Table 7. Neurogenesis, axonogenesis, neuronal growth, neuronal differentiation, neurite outgrowth, synapse formation, synaptic maturation, synaptic refinement, or synaptic stabilization can be increased in the subject at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% or more, compared to before the administration. Neurogenesis, axonogenesis, neuronal growth, neuronal differentiation, neurite outgrowth, synapse formation, synaptic maturation, synaptic refinement, or synaptic stabilization can be increased in the subject between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%.

In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent that increases or decreases the number of nerves in an affected tissue. For example, the subject has cancer (e.g., the subject has a highly innervated tumor). For example, the neuromodulating agent is administered in an amount and for a time sufficient to decrease neurogenesis/axonogenesis. The neuromodulating agent can be, e.g., an inhibitor of neuronal growth factor signaling such as a blocking antibody directed to a neuronal growth factor or neuronal growth factor receptor.

Neuronal growth factor modulators also include antibodies that bind to neuronal growth factors or neuronal growth factor receptors and decrease their signaling (e.g., blocking antibodies). Exemplary neuronal growth factor blocking antibodies are listed below in Table 5. Antibodies to neuronal growth factors listed in Table 10 and Table 7 can also be generated by those of skill in the art using well established and routine methods.

TABLE 5 NEURONAL GROWTH FACTOR ANTIBODIES Neuronal Growth Factor Antibody Company BDNF 38B8 (agonist antibody) Pfizer BDNF 29D7 (agonist antibody) Pfizer EphA3 KB004 KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. IFNA1 Faralimomab Creative Biolabs IFNA1 Sifalimumab (MEDI-545) MedImmune IFNA1 Rontalizumab Genentech IGF Figitumumab (CP-751,871) - Pfizer an IGR-1R MAb IGF SCH717454 (Robatumamab, Merck inhibits IGF initiated phosphorylation) IGF Cixutumumab (IGF-1R Eli Lilly antibody) IGF Teprotumumab (IGF-1R Genmab/Roche blocking antibody) IGF-2 Dusigitumab MedImmune/AstraZeneca IGF-2 DX-2647 Dyax/Shire IGF Xentuzumab Boehringer Ingelheim/Eli Lilly IGF Dalotuzumab (IGFR1 Merck & Co. blocking antibody) IGF Figitumumab (IGFR1 Pfizer blocking antibody) IGF Ganitumab (IGFR1 Amgen blocking antibody) IGF Robatumumab (IGFR1 Roche/Schering-Plough blocking antibody) IL1B Canakinumab Novartis IL1B APX002 Apexigen IL1B Gevokizumab XOMA IL4 Pascolizumab GlaxoSmithKline IL4 Dupilumab Regeneraon/Sanofi IL6 Siltuximab Janssen Biotech, Inc. IL6 Olokizumab UCB/R-Pharm IL6 Elsilimomab Orphan Pharma International IL6 Sirukumab Centocor IL6 Clazakizumab Bristol Myers Squib/Alder Biopharmaceuticals IL6 Gerilimzumab (ARGX-109) arGEN-X/RuiYi IL6 FE301 Ferring Pharmaceuticals IL6 FM101 Femta Pharmaceuticals IL-6R Sarilumab (directed against Regeneron/Sanofi IL6R) IL-6R Tocilizumab Hoffmann-La Roche/Chugai IL-6R Sapelizumab Chugai IL-6R Vobarilizumab Ablynx L1CAM AB417 Creative biolabs L1CAM L1-9.3 Creative biolabs L1CAM L1-14.10 Biolegend NGF Tanezumab Pfizer NGF Fulranumab (JNJ-42160443), Amgen NGF MNAC13 (anti-TrkA, the Creative Biolabs NGF receptor) NGF mAb 911 Rinat/Pfizer NGF Fasinumab Regeneron/Teva NRG1 538.24 Hoffman-La Roche NRP1 Vesencumab Genentech/Roche ROR1 Cirmtuzumab Oncternal Therapeutics SAP GSK2398852 GlaxoSmithKline TGFβ Fresolimumab (pan-TGFβ Genzyme/Aventis antibody) TGFβ IMC-TR1 (LY3022859) Eli Lilly (MAb against TGFβRII) TGFβ TβM1 (anti-TGFβ1 MAb) Eli Lilly TGFβ2 Lerdelimumab (CAT-152) Genzyme TGFβ1 Metelimumab Genzyme TGFβ1 LY2382770 Eli Lilly TGFβ PF-03446962 (MAb against Pfizer TGFβRI) TNF Infliximab Janssen Biotech, Inc. TNF Adalimumab AbbVie Inc. TNF Certolizumab pegol UCB TNF Golimumab Janssen Biotech, Inc. TNF Afelimomab TNF Placulumab Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. TNF Nerelimomab Chiron/Celltech TNF Ozoralizumab Pfizer/Ablynx VEGFA Bevacizumab Genzyme VEGFA Ranibizumab Lucentis VEGF Alacizumab pegol (anti- UCB VEGFR2) VEGFA Brolucizumab Novartis VEGF Icrucumab (anti-VEGFR1) Eli Lilly VEGF Ramucirumab (anti-VEGFR2) Eli Lilly

Neuronal growth factor modulators also include agents that agonize or antagonize neuronal growth factors and neuronal growth factor receptors. For example, neuronal growth factor modulators include TNF inhibitors (e.g., etanercept, thalidomide, lenalidomide, pomalidomide, pentoxifylline, bupropion, and DOI), TGFβ1 inhibitors, (e.g., disitertide (P144)), TGFβ2 inhibitors (e.g., trabedersen (AP12009)). Exemplary neuronal growth factor agonists and antagonists are listed in Table 6.

TABLE 6 NEURONAL GROWTH FACTOR AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS Agonist Antagonist TrkA NGF, amitriptyline, and gambogic Ale-0540 amide, gambogic acid TrkB BDNF, NT3, NT4, 3,7- ANA-12, cyclotraxin B, and Dihydroxyflavone, 3,7,8,2′- gossypetin Tetrahydroxyflavone, 4′- Dimethylamino-7,8- dihydroxyflavone, 7,3′- Dihydroxyflavone, 7,8- Dihydroxyflavone, 7,8,2′- Trihydroxyflavone, 7,8,3′- Trihydroxyflavone, Amitriptyline^(,) Deoxygedunin, Diosmetin, HIOC, LM22A-4, N-Acetylserotonin, Norwogonin (5,7,8-THF), R7, LM22A4, and TDP6 Pan-Trk receptor Entrectinib (RXDX-101), AG 879, GNF 5837, GW 441756, and PF 06273340 GFRα1R GDNF and XIB4035 VEGF receptor AEE 788, AG 879, AP 24534, axitinib, DMH4, GSK 1363089, Ki 8751, RAF 265, SU 4312, SU 5402, SU 5416, SU 6668, sunitinib, toceranib, vatalanib, XL 184, ZM 306416, and ZM 323881 TGFβRI Galunisertib (LY2157299), TEW- 7197, SB-431542, A 83-01, D 4476, GW 788388, LY 364947, R 268712, repsox, SB 505124, SB 525334, and SD 208

Modulators of Gene Expression

In some embodiments, a neuromodulating agent is a neurome gene expression modulator (e.g., an agent that affects the expression of a neurome gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8, e.g., a channel, transporter, neuropeptide, neurotransmitter, neurotrophic, signaling, synaptic, biosynthesis, ligand, receptor, structural, or vesicular gene). A neurome gene expression modulator can affect gene expression through modulation of gene transcription, gene translation, or protein levels. Neurome gene expression modulators may increase gene expression through epigenetic modifications (e.g., demethylation or acetylation), post-translational modifications (e.g., reducing ubiquitination, or altering sumoylation or phosphorylation), by increasing mRNA translation and stability, or through delivery of exogenous genetic material (e.g., a viral vector expressing a gene of interest). In some embodiments, the neurome gene expression modulator increases neurome gene expression by stabilizing, upregulating, or promoting overexpression of a biosynthesis, channel, ligand, receptor, signaling, structural, synaptic, transporter, vesicular, neuropeptide, neurotransmitter, or neurotrophic gene in Table 7 or a channel or transporter gene in Table 8. Neurome gene expression modulators may decrease gene expression through epigenetic modifications (e.g., methylation or deacetylation), post-translational modifications (e.g., increasing ubiquitination, or altering sumoylation or phosphorylation), or by decreasing mRNA translation and stability (e.g., using miRNA, siRNA, shRNA, or other therapeutic RNAs). In some embodiments, the neurome gene expression modulator decreases neurome gene expression by downregulating, inhibiting, or disrupting expression of a biosynthesis, channel, ligand, receptor, signaling, structural, synaptic, transporter, vesicular, neuropeptide, neurotransmitter, or neurotrophic gene in Table 7 or a channel or transporter gene in Table 8. A neurome gene expression modulator may increase or decrease gene expression by 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 98%, or more.

In some embodiments, a neurome gene expression modulator increases or decreases the expression of a neurome gene listed in Table 13 or Table 7 to treat cancer (e.g., through altering the activity of the immune cell expressing the modulated gene). The neurome gene expression modulator can be introduced systemically (e.g., injected intravenously into the blood stream), or administered locally (e.g., administered to or near a lymph node, secondary lymphoid organ, or tumor). The neurome gene expression modulator can also be used to contact an immune cell in vitro before administering the cell to a subject (e.g., a human subject or animal model).

TABLE 7 NEUROME GENES Approved Entrez Gene type/ Symbol Approved name Gene ID family Category ABAT 4-aminobutyrate 18 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis aminotransferase ACHE Acetylcholinesterase 43 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis ACTR1A ARP1 actin-related protein 1 10121 Synaptic Structural homolog A, centractin alpha ACTR1B ARP1 actin-related protein 1 10120 Synaptic Structural homolog B, centractin beta ADCY1 Adenylate cyclase 1 107 Signaling Signaling ADCY10 Adenylate cyclase 10, soluble 55811 Signaling Signaling ADCY2 Adenylate cyclase 2 108 Signaling Signaling ADCY3 Adenylate cyclase 3 109 Signaling Signaling ADCY4 Adenylate cyclase 4 196883 Signaling Signaling ADCY5 Adenylate cyclase 5 111 Signaling Signaling ADCY6 Adenylate cyclase 6 112 Signaling Signaling ADCY7 Adenylate cyclase 7 113 Signaling Signaling ADCY8 Adenylate cyclase 8 114 Signaling Signaling ADCY9 Adenylate cyclase 9 115 Signaling Signaling ADCYAP1 Adenylate cyclase activating 116 Signaling Signaling polypeptide 1 ADCYAP1R1 ADCYAP receptor type I 117 Neurotransmitter Receptor ADIPOQ Adiponectin, C1Q and 9370 Neuropeptide Ligand collagen domain containing ADK Adenosine kinase 132 Signaling Signaling ADM Adrenomedullin 133 Neuropeptide Ligand ADM2 Adrenomedullin 2 79924 Neuropeptide Ligand ADNP Activity dependent 23394 Signaling Structural neuroprotector homeobox ADORA2A Adenosine A2a receptor 135 Neurotransmitter Receptor ADORA2B Adenosine A2b receptor 136 Neurotransmitter Receptor ADRA1A Adrenoceptor alpha 1A 148 Neurotransmitter Receptor ADRA1B Adrenoceptor alpha 1B 147 Neurotransmitter Receptor ADRA1D Adrenoceptor alpha 1D 146 Neurotransmitter Receptor ADRA2A Adrenoceptor alpha 2A 150 Neurotransmitter Receptor ADRA2B Adrenoceptor alpha 2B 151 Neurotransmitter Receptor ADRA2C Adrenoceptor alpha 2C 152 Neurotransmitter Receptor ADRB1 Adrenoceptor beta 1 153 Neurotransmitter Receptor ADRB2 Adrenoceptor beta 2 154 Neurotransmitter Receptor ADRB3 Adrenoceptor beta 3 155 Neurotransmitter Receptor AGRN Agrin 375790 Neuropeptide Ligand AGRP Agouti related neuropeptide 181 Neuropeptide Ligand AGT Angiotensinogen 183 Neuropeptide Ligand AGTR1 Angiotensin II receptor type 1 185 Neuropeptide Receptor AKAP1 A-kinase anchoring protein 1 8165 Signaling Signaling AKAP10 A-kinase anchoring protein 10 11216 Signaling Signaling AKAP11 A-kinase anchoring protein 11 11215 Signaling Signaling AKAP12 A-kinase anchoring protein 12 9590 Signaling Signaling AKAP13 A-kinase anchoring protein 13 11214 Signaling Signaling AKAP14 A-kinase anchoring protein 14 158798 Signaling Signaling AKAP17A A-kinase anchoring protein 8227 Signaling Signaling 17A AKAP2 A-kinase anchoring protein 2 11217 Signaling Signaling AKAP3 A-kinase anchoring protein 3 10566 Signaling Signaling AKAP4 A-kinase anchoring protein 4 8852 Signaling Signaling AKAP5 A-kinase anchoring protein 5 9495 Signaling Signaling AKAP6 A-kinase anchoring protein 6 9472 Signaling Signaling AKAP7 A-kinase anchoring protein 7 9465 Signaling Signaling AKAP8 A-kinase anchoring protein 8 10270 Signaling Signaling AKAP9 A-kinase anchoring protein 9 10142 Signaling Signaling AKT1 AKT serine/threonine kinase 1 207 Signaling Signaling AKT2 AKT serine/threonine kinase 2 208 Signaling Signaling AKT3 AKT serine/threonine kinase 3 10000 Signaling Signaling ALDH5A1 Aldehyde dehydrogenase 5 7915 Other Miscelaneous family member A1 ALDH9A1 Aldehyde dehydrogenase 9 223 Other Miscelaneous family member A1 ALOX15 Arachidonate 15-lipoxygenase 246 Other Miscelaneous ALPL Alkaline phosphatase, 249 Other Miscelaneous liver/bone/kidney ANXA1 Annexin A1 301 Other Miscelaneous AP3B2 Adaptor related protein 8120 Vesicular Vesicles complex 3 beta 2 subunit AP3D1 Adaptor related protein 8943 Vesicular Vesicles complex 3 delta 1 subunit APLN Apelin 8862 Neuropeptide Ligand APOE Apolipoprotein E 348 Other Miscelaneous ARID1B AT-rich interaction domain 1B 57492 Other Miscelaneous ARPP19 Camp regulated 10776 Signaling Signaling phosphoprotein 19 ARR3 Arrestin 3 407 Signaling Signaling ARRB1 Arrestin beta 1 408 Signaling Signaling ARRB2 Arrestin beta 2 409 Signaling Signaling ARTN Artemin 9048 Neurotrophic Ligand ASIC1 Acid sensing ion channel 41 Channel or Channel subunit 1 transporter ASIC2 Acid sensing ion channel 40 Channel or Channel subunit 2 transporter ASIC3 Acid sensing ion channel 9311 Channel or Channel subunit 3 transporter ASIP Agouti signaling protein 434 Neuropeptide Ligand ATP10A Atpase phospholipid 57194 Channel or Transporter transporting 10A (putative) transporter ATP10B Atpase phospholipid 23120 Channel or Transporter transporting 10B (putative) transporter ATP10D Atpase phospholipid 57205 Channel or Transporter transporting 10D (putative) transporter ATP11A Atpase phospholipid 23250 Channel or Transporter transporting 11A transporter ATP11B Atpase phospholipid 23200 Channel or Transporter transporting 11B (putative) transporter ATP11C Atpase phospholipid 286410 Channel or Transporter transporting 11C transporter ATP12A Atpase H+/K+ transporting 479 Channel or Transporter non-gastric alpha2 subunit transporter ATP1A1 Atpase Na+/K+ transporting 476 Channel or Transporter subunit alpha 1 transporter ATP1A2 Atpase Na+/K+ transporting 477 Channel or Transporter subunit alpha 2 transporter ATP1A3 Atpase Na+/K+ transporting 478 Channel or Transporter subunit alpha 3 transporter ATP1A4 Atpase Na+/K+ transporting 480 Channel or Transporter subunit alpha 4 transporter ATP1B1 Atpase Na+/K+ transporting 481 Channel or Transporter subunit beta 1 transporter ATP1B2 Atpase Na+/K+ transporting 482 Channel or Transporter subunit beta 2 transporter ATP1B3 Atpase Na+/K+ transporting 483 Channel or Transporter subunit beta 3 transporter ATP2A1 Atpase 487 Channel or Transporter sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic transporter reticulum Ca2+ transporting 1 ATP2A2 Atpase 488 Channel or Transporter sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic transporter reticulum Ca2+ transporting 2 ATP2A3 Atpase 489 Channel or Transporter sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic transporter reticulum Ca2+ transporting 3 ATP2B1 Atpase plasma membrane 490 Channel or Transporter Ca2+ transporting 1 transporter ATP2B2 Atpase plasma membrane 491 Channel or Transporter Ca2+ transporting 2 transporter ATP2B3 Atpase plasma membrane 492 Channel or Transporter Ca2+ transporting 3 transporter ATP2B4 Atpase plasma membrane 493 Channel or Transporter Ca2+ transporting 4 transporter ATP2C1 Atpase secretory pathway 27032 Channel or Transporter Ca2+ transporting 1 transporter ATP2C2 Atpase secretory pathway 9914 Channel or Transporter Ca2+ transporting 2 transporter ATP4A Atpase H+/K+ transporting 495 Channel or Transporter alpha subunit transporter ATP4B Atpase H+/K+ transporting 496 Channel or Transporter beta subunit transporter ATP5A1 ATP synthase, H+ 498 Channel or Transporter transporting, mitochondrial F1 transporter complex, alpha subunit 1, cardiac muscle ATP5B ATP synthase, H+ 506 Channel or Transporter transporting, mitochondrial F1 transporter complex, beta polypeptide ATP5C1 ATP synthase, H+ 509 Channel or Transporter transporting, mitochondrial F1 transporter complex, gamma polypeptide 1 ATP5D ATP synthase, H+ 513 Channel or Transporter transporting, mitochondrial F1 transporter complex, delta subunit ATP5E ATP synthase, H+ 514 Channel or Transporter transporting, mitochondrial F1 transporter complex, epsilon subunit ATP5F1 ATP synthase, H+ 515 Channel or Transporter transporting, mitochondrial Fo transporter complex subunit B1 ATP5H ATP synthase, H+ 10476 Channel or Transporter transporting, mitochondrial Fo transporter complex subunit D ATP5I ATP synthase, H+ 521 Channel or Transporter transporting, mitochondrial Fo transporter complex subunit E ATP5J ATP synthase, H+ 522 Channel or Transporter transporting, mitochondrial Fo transporter complex subunit F6 ATP5J2 ATP synthase, H+ 9551 Channel or Transporter transporting, mitochondrial Fo transporter complex subunit F2 ATP5L2 ATP synthase, H+ 267020 Channel or Transporter transporting, mitochondrial Fo transporter complex subunit G2 ATP6V0A1 Atpase H+ transporting V0 535 Channel or Transporter subunit a1 transporter ATP6V0A2 Atpase H+ transporting V0 23545 Channel or Transporter subunit a2 transporter ATP6V0A4 Atpase H+ transporting V0 50617 Channel or Transporter subunit a4 transporter ATP6V0B Atpase H+ transporting V0 533 Channel or Transporter subunit b transporter ATP6V0C Atpase H+ transporting V0 527 Channel or Transporter subunit c transporter ATP6V0D1 Atpase H+ transporting V0 9114 Channel or Transporter subunit d1 transporter ATP6V0D2 Atpase H+ transporting V0 245972 Channel or Transporter subunit d2 transporter ATP6V0E1 Atpase H+ transporting V0 8992 Channel or Transporter subunit e1 transporter ATP6V0E2 Atpase H+ transporting V0 155066 Channel or Transporter subunit e2 transporter ATP6V1A Atpase H+ transporting V1 523 Channel or Transporter subunit A transporter ATP6V1B1 Atpase H+ transporting V1 525 Channel or Transporter subunit B1 transporter ATP6V1B2 Atpase H+ transporting V1 526 Channel or Transporter subunit B2 transporter ATP6V1C1 Atpase H+ transporting V1 528 Channel or Transporter subunit C1 transporter ATP6V1C2 Atpase H+ transporting V1 245973 Channel or Transporter subunit C2 transporter ATP6V1D Atpase H+ transporting V1 51382 Channel or Transporter subunit D transporter ATP6V1E1 Atpase H+ transporting V1 529 Channel or Transporter subunit E1 transporter ATP6V1E2 Atpase H+ transporting V1 90423 Channel or Transporter subunit E2 transporter ATP6V1F Atpase H+ transporting V1 9296 Channel or Transporter subunit F transporter ATP6V1G1 Atpase H+ transporting V1 9550 Channel or Transporter subunit G1 transporter ATP6V1G2 Atpase H+ transporting V1 534 Channel or Transporter subunit G2 transporter ATP6V1G3 Atpase H+ transporting V1 127124 Channel or Transporter subunit G3 transporter ATP6V1H Atpase H+ transporting V1 51606 Channel or Transporter subunit H transporter ATP7A Atpase copper transporting 538 Channel or Transporter alpha transporter ATP7B Atpase copper transporting 540 Channel or Transporter beta transporter ATP8A1 Atpase phospholipid 10396 Channel or Transporter transporting 8A1 transporter ATP8A2 Atpase phospholipid 51761 Channel or Transporter transporting 8A2 transporter ATP8B1 Atpase phospholipid 5205 Channel or Transporter transporting 8B1 transporter ATP8B2 Atpase phospholipid 57198 Channel or Transporter transporting 8B2 transporter ATP8B3 Atpase phospholipid 148229 Channel or Transporter transporting 8B3 transporter ATP8B4 Atpase phospholipid 79895 Channel or Transporter transporting 8B4 (putative) transporter ATP9A Atpase phospholipid 10079 Channel or Transporter transporting 9A (putative) transporter ATP9B Atpase phospholipid 374868 Channel or Transporter transporting 9B (putative) transporter AVP Arginine vasopressin 551 Neuropeptide Ligand AVPR1A Arginine vasopressin receptor 552 Neuropeptide Receptor 1A AVPR1B Arginine vasopressin receptor 553 Neuropeptide Receptor 1B AVPR2 Arginine vasopressin receptor 554 Neuropeptide Receptor 2 BACE1 Beta-secretase 1 23621 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis BAG2 BCL2 associated athanogene 9532 Signaling Signaling 2 BAIAP3 BAI1 associated protein 3 8938 Signaling Signaling BCHE Butyrylcholinesterase 590 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis BCL2 BCL2, apoptosis regulator 596 Signaling Signaling BDKRB2 Bradykinin receptor B2 624 Neuropeptide Receptor BDNF Brain derived neurotrophic 627 Neurotrophic Ligand factor BDNF-AS BDNF antisense RNA 497258 Neurotrophic Ligand BEX1 Protein BEX1 (Brain- 55859 Neurotrophic Signaling expressed X-linked protein 1) BEX3 Protein BEX3 (Brain- 27018 Neurotrophic Signaling expressed X-linked protein 3) BRAF B-Raf proto-oncogene, 673 Signaling Signaling serine/threonine kinase BRSK1 BR serine/threonine kinase 1 84446 Vesicular Vesicles BSN Bassoon presynaptic 8927 Other Miscelaneous cytomatrix protein BTBD9 BTB domain containing 9 114781 Vesicular Vesicles C1QBP Complement C1q binding 708 Neuropeptide Receptor protein C2CD4A C2 calcium dependent domain 145741 Other Miscelaneous containing 4A C2CD4B C2 calcium dependent domain 388125 Other Miscelaneous containing 4B C2CD4C C2 calcium dependent domain 126567 Other Miscelaneous containing 4C C2CD4D C2 calcium dependent domain 1001910 Other Miscelaneous containing 4D 40 C4orf48 Chromosome 4 open reading 401115 Neuropeptide Ligand frame 48 CACNA1A Calcium voltage-gated 773 Channel or Channel channel subunit alpha1 A transporter CACNA1B Calcium voltage-gated 774 Channel or Channel channel subunit alpha1 B transporter CACNA1C Calcium voltage-gated 775 Channel or Channel channel subunit alpha1 C transporter CACNA1D Calcium voltage-gated 776 Channel or Channel channel subunit alpha1 D transporter CACNA1E Calcium voltage-gated 777 Channel or Channel channel subunit alpha1 E transporter CACNA1F Calcium voltage-gated 778 Channel or Channel channel subunit alpha1 F transporter CACNA1G Calcium voltage-gated 8913 Channel or Channel channel subunit alpha1 G transporter CACNA1H Calcium voltage-gated 8912 Channel or Channel channel subunit alpha1 H transporter CACNA1I Calcium voltage-gated 8911 Channel or Channel channel subunit alpha1 I transporter CACNA1S Calcium voltage-gated 779 Channel or Channel channel subunit alpha1 S transporter CACNB1 Calcium voltage-gated 782 Channel or Channel channel auxiliary subunit beta transporter 1 CACNB2 Calcium voltage-gated 783 Channel or Channel channel auxiliary subunit beta transporter 2 CACNB4 Calcium voltage-gated 785 Channel or Channel channel auxiliary subunit beta transporter 4 CALCA Calcitonin related polypeptide 796 Neuropeptide Ligand alpha, CGRP CALCB Calcitonin related polypeptide 797 Neuropeptide Ligand beta CALCR Calcitonin receptor 799 Neuropeptide Receptor CALCRL Calcitonin receptor like 10203 Neuropeptide Receptor receptor CALM1 Calmodulin 1 801 Signaling Signaling CALM2 Calmodulin 2 805 Signaling Signaling CALM3 Calmodulin 3 808 Signaling Signaling CALY Calcyon neuron specific 50632 Other Miscelaneous vesicular protein CAMK2A Calcium/calmodulin 815 Signaling Signaling dependent protein kinase II alpha CAMK2B Calcium/calmodulin 816 Signaling Signaling dependent protein kinase II beta CAMK4 Calcium/calmodulin 814 Signaling Signaling dependent protein kinase IV CARF Calcium responsive 79800 Signaling Signaling transcription factor CARTPT CART prepropeptide 9607 Neuropeptide Ligand CASK Calcium/calmodulin 8573 Signaling Signaling dependent serine protein kinase CASR Calcium sensing receptor 846 Neuropeptide Biosynthesis CATSPER1 Cation channel sperm 117144 Channel or Channel associated 1 transporter CATSPER2 Cation channel sperm 117155 Channel or Channel associated 2 transporter CATSPER3 Cation channel sperm 347732 Channel or Channel associated 3 transporter CATSPER4 Cation channel sperm 378807 Channel or Channel associated 4 transporter CBLN1 Cerebellin 1 precursor 869 Other Miscelaneous CBLN2 Cerebellin 2 precursor 147381 Other Miscelaneous CBLN3 Cerebellin 3 precursor 643866 Other Miscelaneous CBLN4 Cerebellin 4 precursor 140689 Other Miscelaneous CCK Cholecystokinin 885 Neuropeptide Ligand CCKAR Cholecystokinin A receptor 886 Neuropeptide Receptor CCKBR Cholecystokinin B receptor 887 Neuropeptide Receptor CCL2 C-C motif chemokine ligand 2 6347 Neuropeptide Ligand CCR1 C-C motif chemokine receptor 1230 Other Miscelaneous 1 CD34 Hematopoietic progenitor cell 947 Neurotrophic Receptor antigen CD34 (CD antigen CD34) CD38 CD38 molecule 952 Signaling Signaling CDH2 Cadherin 2 1000 Signaling Signaling CDK5 Cyclin dependent kinase 5 1020 Signaling Signaling CDK5R1 Cyclin dependent kinase 5 8851 Signaling Signaling regulatory subunit 1 CDKN1A Cyclin dependent kinase 1026 Signaling Signaling inhibitor 1A CDNF Cerebral dopamine 441549 Neurotrophic Ligand neurotrophic factor CHAT Choline O-acetyltransferase 1103 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis CHGA Chromogranin A 1113 Neuropeptide Ligand CHGB Chromogranin B 1114 Neuropeptide Ligand CHMP4A Charged multivesicular body 29082 Vesicular Vesicles protein 4A CHMP4B Charged multivesicular body 128866 Vesicular Vesicles protein 4B CHRFAM7A CHRNA7 (exons 5-10) and 89832 Neurotransmitter Receptor FAM7A (exons A-E) fusion CHRM1 Cholinergic receptor 1128 Neurotransmitter Receptor muscarinic 1 CHRM2 Cholinergic receptor 1129 Neurotransmitter Receptor muscarinic 2 CHRM3 Cholinergic receptor 1131 Neurotransmitter Receptor muscarinic 3 CHRM4 Cholinergic receptor 1132 Neurotransmitter Receptor muscarinic 4 CHRM5 Cholinergic receptor 1133 Neurotransmitter Receptor muscarinic 5 CHRNA1 Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 1134 Neurotransmitter Receptor alpha 1 subunit CHRNA10 Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 57053 Neurotransmitter Receptor alpha 10 subunit CHRNA2 Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 1135 Neurotransmitter Receptor alpha 2 subunit CHRNA3 Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 1136 Neurotransmitter Receptor alpha 3 subunit CHRNA4 Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 1137 Neurotransmitter Receptor alpha 4 subunit CHRNA5 Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 1138 Neurotransmitter Receptor alpha 5 subunit CHRNA6 Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 8973 Neurotransmitter Receptor alpha 6 subunit CHRNA7 Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 1139 Neurotransmitter Receptor alpha 7 subunit CHRNA9 Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 55584 Neurotransmitter Receptor alpha 9 subunit CHRNB1 Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 1140 Neurotransmitter Receptor beta 1 subunit CHRNB2 Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 1141 Neurotransmitter Receptor beta 2 subunit CHRNB3 Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 1142 Neurotransmitter Receptor beta 3 subunit CHRNB4 Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 1143 Neurotransmitter Receptor beta 4 subunit CHRND Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 1144 Neurotransmitter Receptor delta subunit CHRNE Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 1145 Neurotransmitter Receptor epsilon subunit CHRNG Cholinergic receptor nicotinic 1146 Neurotransmitter Receptor gamma subunit CLCF1 Cardiotrophin-like cytokine 23529 Neuropeptide Ligand factor 1 CLCN1 Chloride voltage-gated 1180 Channel or Channel channel 1 transporter CLCN2 Chloride voltage-gated 1181 Channel or Channel channel 2 transporter CLCN3 Chloride voltage-gated 1182 Channel or Channel channel 3 transporter CLCN4 Chloride voltage-gated 1183 Channel or Channel channel 4 transporter CLCN5 Chloride voltage-gated 1184 Channel or Channel channel 5 transporter CLCN6 Chloride voltage-gated 1185 Channel or Channel channel 6 transporter CLCN7 Chloride voltage-gated 1186 Channel or Channel channel 7 transporter CLCNKA Chloride voltage-gated 1187 Channel or Channel channel Ka transporter CLCNKB Chloride voltage-gated 1188 Channel or Channel channel Kb transporter CLIC6 Chloride intracellular channel 54102 Channel or Channel 6 transporter CLN3 CLN3, battenin 1201 Other Miscelaneous CNGA1 Cyclic nucleotide gated 1259 Channel or Channel channel alpha 1 transporter CNGA2 Cyclic nucleotide gated 1260 Channel or Channel channel alpha 2 transporter CNGA3 Cyclic nucleotide gated 1261 Channel or Channel channel alpha 3 transporter CNGA4 Cyclic nucleotide gated 1262 Channel or Channel channel alpha 4 transporter CNGB1 Cyclic nucleotide gated 1258 Channel or Channel channel beta 1 transporter CNGB3 Cyclic nucleotide gated 54714 Channel or Channel channel beta 3 transporter CNR1 Cannabinoid receptor 1 1268 Neurotransmitter Receptor CNR2 Cannabinoid receptor 2 1269 Neurotransmitter Receptor CNRIP1 Cannabinoid receptor 25927 Neurotransmitter Receptor interacting protein 1 CNTF Ciliary neurotrophic factor 1270 Neurotrophic Ligand CNTFR Ciliary neurotrophic factor 1271 Neurotrophic Receptor receptor CNTNAP4 Contactin associated protein 85445 Vesicular Vesicles like 4 COMT Catechol-O-methyltransferase 1312 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis CORT Cortistatin 1325 Neuropeptide Ligand CPA4 Carboxypeptidase A4 51200 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis CPE Carboxypeptidase E 1363 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis CPLX1 Complexin 1 10815 Vesicular Vesicles CPLX2 Complexin 2 10814 Vesicular Vesicles CPLX3 Complexin 3 594855 Vesicular Vesicles CPLX4 Complexin 4 339302 Vesicular Vesicles CRCP CGRP receptor component 27297 Neuropeptide Receptor CREB1 Camp responsive element 1385 Signaling Signaling binding protein 1 CREM Camp responsive element 1390 Neurotransmitter Signaling modulator CRH Corticotropin releasing 1392 Neuropeptide Ligand hormone CRHR1 Corticotropin releasing 1394 Neuropeptide Receptor hormone receptor 1 CRHR2 Corticotropin releasing 1395 Neuropeptide Receptor hormone receptor 2 CRLF1 Cytokine receptor like factor 1 9244 Neurotrophic Receptor CSK C-src tyrosine kinase 1445 Signaling Signaling CSNK1E Casein kinase 1 epsilon 1454 Signaling Signaling CSPG5 Chondroitin sulfate 10675 Neurotrophic Ligand proteoglycan 5 CST3 Cystatin C 1471 Other Miscelaneous CTAGE15 CTAGE family member 15 441294 Other Miscelaneous CTAGE4 CTAGE family member 4 100128553 Other Miscelaneous CTAGE6 CTAGE family member 6 340307 Other Miscelaneous CTAGE8 CTAGE family member 8 100142659 Other Miscelaneous CTAGE9 CTAGE family member 9 643854 Other Miscelaneous CTBP2 C-terminal binding protein 2 1488 Signaling Signaling CTSH Cathepsin H 1512 Neuropeptide Biosynthesis CTSV Cathepsin V 1515 Neuropeptide Biosynthesis CXCR4 C-X-C motif chemokine 7852 Other Miscelaneous receptor 4 CYFIP1 Cytoplasmic FMR1 interacting 23191 Signaling Signaling protein 1 CYP19A1 Cytochrome P450 family 19 1588 Other Miscelaneous subfamily A member 1 CYSLTR1 Cysteinyl leukotriene receptor 10800 Neuropeptide Receptor 1 CYSLTR2 Cysteinyl leukotriene receptor 57105 Neuropeptide Receptor 2 DAGLA Diacylglycerol lipase alpha 747 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis DAGLB Diacylglycerol lipase beta 221955 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis DBH Dopamine beta-hydroxylase 1621 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis DBI Diazepam binding inhibitor, 1622 Neuropeptide Ligand acyl-coa binding protein DCLK1 Doublecortin like kinase 1 9201 Neurotrophic Signaling DDC Dopa decarboxylase 1644 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis DDR1 Discoidin domain receptor 780 Other Miscelaneous tyrosine kinase 1 DDR2 Discoidin domain receptor 4921 Other Miscelaneous tyrosine kinase 2 DGKI Diacylglycerol kinase iota 9162 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis DIRC2 Disrupted in renal carcinoma 2 84925 Channel or Transporter transporter DISC1 Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 27185 Neurotrophic Signaling DKK1 Dickkopf WNT signaling 22943 Other Miscelaneous pathway inhibitor 1 DLGAP2 DLG associated protein 2 9228 Vesicular Vesicles DNAJC5 Dnaj heat shock protein family 80331 Neurotrophic Signaling (Hsp40) member C5 DNM1 Dynamin 1 1759 Vesicular Vesicles DNM2 Dynamin 2 1785 Vesicular Vesicles DOC2A Double C2 domain alpha 8448 Signaling Signaling DOC2B Double C2 domain beta 8447 Signaling Signaling DPP4 Dipeptidyl peptidase 4 1803 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis DPYSL2 Dihydropyrimidinase like 2 1808 Neurotrophic Signaling DRD1 Dopamine receptor D1 1812 Neurotransmitter Receptor DRD2 Dopamine receptor D2 1813 Neurotransmitter Receptor DRD3 Dopamine receptor D3 1814 Neurotransmitter Receptor DRD4 Dopamine receptor D4 1815 Neurotransmitter Receptor DRD5 Dopamine receptor D5 1816 Neurotransmitter Receptor DTNA Dystrobrevin alpha 1837 Other Miscelaneous DTNBP1 Dystrobrevin binding protein 1 84062 Other Miscelaneous DVL1 Dishevelled segment polarity 1855 Neurotrophic Signaling protein 1 ECEL1 Endothelin converting enzyme 9427 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis like 1 EDN1 Endothelin 1 1906 Neuropeptide Ligand EDN2 Endothelin 2 1907 Neuropeptide Ligand EDN3 Endothelin 3 1908 Neuropeptide Ligand EDNRA Endothelin receptor type A 1909 Neuropeptide Receptor EDNRB Endothelin receptor type B 1910 Neuropeptide Receptor EEF2 Eukaryotic translation 1938 Other Miscelaneous elongation factor 2 EEF2K Eukaryotic elongation factor 2 29904 Other Miscelaneous kinase EFNA5 Ephrin-A5 (AL-1) (EPH-related 1946 Neurotrophic Ligand receptor tyrosine kinase ligand 7) (LERK-7) EGF Epidermal growth factor 1950 Other Miscelaneous EGFR Epidermal growth factor 1956 Other Miscelaneous receptor EGR3 Early growth response 3 1960 Neurotrophic Signaling EIF4A3 Eukaryotic translation initiation 9775 Other Miscelaneous factor 4A3 EIF4EBP2 Eukaryotic translation initiation 1979 Other Miscelaneous factor 4E binding protein 2 EN1 Engrailed homeobox 1 2019 Other Miscelaneous ENO2 Enolase 2 2026 Neurotrophic Signaling EphA1 Ephrin type-A receptor 1 2041 Neurotrophic Receptor EphA10 Ephrin type-A receptor 10 284656 Neurotrophic Receptor EphA2 Ephrin type-A receptor 2 1969 Neurotrophic Receptor EphA3 Ephrin type-A receptor 3 2042 Neurotrophic Receptor EphA4 Ephrin type-A receptor 4 2043 Neurotrophic Receptor EphA5 Ephrin type-A receptor 5 2044 Neurotrophic Receptor EphA6 Ephrin type-A receptor 6 285220 Neurotrophic Receptor EphA7 Ephrin type-A receptor 7 2045 Neurotrophic Receptor EphA8 Ephrin type-A receptor 8 2046 Neurotrophic Receptor EphB1 Ephrin type-B receptor 1 2047 Neurotrophic Receptor EphB2 Ephrin type-B receptor 2 2048 Neurotrophic Receptor EphB3 Ephrin type-B receptor 3 2049 Neurotrophic Receptor EphB4 Ephrin type-B receptor 4 2050 Neurotrophic Receptor EphB6 Ephrin type-B receptor 6 2051 Neurotrophic Receptor EPO Erythropoietin 2056 Other Miscelaneous ERBB2 Erb-b2 receptor tyrosine 2064 Other Miscelaneous kinase 2 ERC1 ELKS/RAB6-interacting/CAST 23085 Signaling Signaling family member 1 ERC2 ELKS/RAB6-interacting/CAST 26059 Signaling Signaling family member 2 ERG ERG, ETS transcription factor 2078 Other Miscelaneous ETBR2 Receptor for prosaposin 9283 Neurotrophic Receptor ETV5 ETS variant 5 2119 Other Miscelaneous EXOC3L1 Exocyst complex component 3 283849 Other Miscelaneous like 1 F2RL1 F2R like trypsin receptor 1 2150 Other Miscelaneous FAAH Fatty acid amide hydrolase 2166 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis FAP Fibroblast activation protein 2191 Neuropeptide Biosynthesis alpha FEV FEV, ETS transcription factor 54738 Other Miscelaneous FFAR3 Free fatty acid receptor 3 2865 Other Miscelaneous FGF14 Fibroblast growth factor 14 2259 Other Miscelaneous FGF2 Fibroblast growth factor 2 2247 Other Miscelaneous FGF20 Fibroblast growth factor 20 26281 Other Miscelaneous FKBP5 FK506 binding protein 5 2289 Other Miscelaneous FLNA Filamin A 2316 Other Miscelaneous FLVCR1 Feline leukemia virus 28982 Channel or Transporter subgroup C cellular receptor 1 transporter FLVCR2 Feline leukemia virus 55640 Channel or Transporter subgroup C cellular receptor transporter family member 2 FMR1 Fragile X mental retardation 1 2332 Other Miscelaneous FNTA Farnesyltransferase, CAAX 2339 Neurotransmitter Signaling box, alpha FOLH1 Folate hydrolase 1 2346 Neuropeptide Biosynthesis FRS2 Fibroblast growth factor 10818 Other Miscelaneous receptor substrate 2 FRS3 Fibroblast growth factor 10817 Other Miscelaneous receptor substrate 3 FSHR Follicle stimulating hormone 2492 Neuropeptide Receptor receptor FSTL4 Follistatin like 4 23105 Neurotrophic Receptor FXYD2 FXYD domain containing ion 486 Channel or Transporter transport regulator 2 transporter GAB1 GRB2 associated binding 2549 Signaling Signaling protein 1 GABARAP GABA type A receptor- 11337 Neurotransmitter Receptor associated protein GABBR1 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2550 Neurotransmitter Receptor type B receptor subunit 1 GABRA1 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2554 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor alpha1 subunit GABRA2 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2555 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor alpha2 subunit GABRA3 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2556 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor alpha3 subunit GABRA4 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2557 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor alpha4 subunit GABRA5 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2558 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor alpha5 subunit GABRA6 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2559 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor alpha6 subunit GABRB1 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2560 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor beta1 subunit GABRB2 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2561 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor beta2 subunit GABRB3 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2562 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor beta3 subunit GABRD Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2563 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor delta subunit GABRE Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2564 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor epsilon subunit GABRG1 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2565 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor gamma1 subunit GABRG2 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2566 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor gamma2 subunit GABRG3 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2567 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor gamma3 subunit GABRP Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2568 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor pi subunit GABRQ Gamma-aminobutyric acid 55879 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor theta subunit GABRR1 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2569 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor rho1 subunit GABRR2 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2570 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor rho2 subunit GABRR3 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 200959 Neurotransmitter Receptor type A receptor rho3 subunit (gene/pseudogene) GAD1 Glutamate decarboxylase 1 2571 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis GAD2 Glutamate decarboxylase 2 2572 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis GAL Galanin and GMAP 51083 Neuropeptide Ligand prepropeptide GALP Galanin like peptide 85569 Neuropeptide Ligand GALR1 Galanin receptor 1 2587 Neuropeptide Receptor GALR2 Galanin receptor 2 8811 Neuropeptide Receptor GALR3 Galanin receptor 3 8484 Neuropeptide Receptor GAST Gastrin 2520 Neuropeptide Ligand GCGR Glucagon receptor 2642 Other Miscelaneous GCHFR GTP cyclohydrolase I 2644 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis feedback regulator GDNF Glial cell derived neurotrophic 2668 Neurotrophic Ligand factor GFAP Glial fibrillary acidic protein 2670 Other Miscelaneous GFRA1 GDNF family receptor alpha 1 2674 Neurotrophic Receptor GFRA2 GDNF family receptor alpha 2 2675 Neurotrophic Receptor GFRA3 GDNF family receptor alpha 3 2676 Neurotrophic Receptor GFRA4 GDNF family receptor alpha 4 64096 Neurotrophic Receptor GH1 Growth hormone 1 2688 Neuropeptide Ligand GHRH Growth hormone releasing 2691 Neuropeptide Ligand hormone GHRHR Growth hormone releasing 2692 Neuropeptide Receptor hormone receptor GHRL Ghrelin and obestatin 51738 Neuropeptide Ligand prepropeptide GIP Gastric inhibitory polypeptide 2695 Neuropeptide Ligand GJA1 Gap junction protein alpha 1 2697 Channel or Channel transporter GJA10 Gap junction protein alpha 10 84694 Channel or Channel transporter GJA3 Gap junction protein alpha 3 2700 Channel or Channel transporter GJA4 Gap junction protein alpha 4 2701 Channel or Channel transporter GJA5 Gap junction protein alpha 5 2702 Channel or Channel transporter GJA8 Gap junction protein alpha 8 2703 Channel or Channel transporter GJA9 Gap junction protein alpha 9 81025 Channel or Channel transporter GJB1 Gap junction protein beta 1 2705 Channel or Channel transporter GJB2 Gap junction protein beta 2 2706 Channel or Channel transporter GJB3 Gap junction protein beta 3 2707 Channel or Channel transporter GJB4 Gap junction protein beta 4 127534 Channel or Channel transporter GJB5 Gap junction protein beta 5 2709 Channel or Channel transporter GJB6 Gap junction protein beta 6 10804 Channel or Channel transporter GJB7 Gap junction protein beta 7 375519 Channel or Channel transporter GJC1 Gap junction protein gamma 1 10052 Channel or Channel transporter GJC2 Gap junction protein gamma 2 57165 Channel or Channel transporter GJC3 Gap junction protein gamma 3 349149 Channel or Channel transporter GJD2 Gap junction protein delta 2 57369 Channel or Channel transporter GJD3 Gap junction protein delta 3 125111 Channel or Channel transporter GJD4 Gap junction protein delta 4 219770 Channel or Channel transporter GJE1 Gap junction protein epsilon 1 100126572 Channel or Channel transporter GLRA1 Glycine receptor alpha 1 2741 Neurotransmitter Receptor GLRA2 Glycine receptor alpha 2 2742 Neurotransmitter Receptor GLRA3 Glycine receptor alpha 3 8001 Neurotransmitter Receptor GLRA4 Glycine receptor alpha 4 441509 Neurotransmitter Receptor GLRB Glycine receptor beta 2743 Neurotransmitter Receptor GLS Glutaminase 2744 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis GLS2 Glutaminase 2 27165 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis GLUL Glutamate-ammonia ligase 2752 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis GNA11 G protein subunit alpha 11 2767 Signaling Signaling GNA13 G protein subunit alpha 13 10672 Signaling Signaling GNA14 G protein subunit alpha 14 9630 Signaling Signaling GNA15 G protein subunit alpha 15 2769 Signaling Signaling GNAI1 G protein subunit alpha i1 2770 Signaling Signaling GNAI2 G protein subunit alpha i2 2771 Signaling Signaling GNAI3 G protein subunit alpha i3 2773 Signaling Signaling GNAL G protein subunit alpha L 2774 Signaling Signaling GNAO1 G protein subunit alpha o1 2775 Signaling Signaling GNAQ G protein subunit alpha q 2776 Signaling Signaling GNAS GNAS complex locus 2778 Signaling Signaling GNAZ G protein subunit alpha z 2781 Signaling Signaling GNB1 G protein subunit beta 1 2782 Signaling Signaling GNB2 G protein subunit beta 2 2783 Signaling Signaling GNB3 G protein subunit beta 3 2784 Signaling Signaling GNB4 G protein subunit beta 4 59345 Signaling Signaling GNB5 G protein subunit beta 5 10681 Signaling Signaling GNG10 G protein subunit gamma 10 2790 Signaling GNG11 G protein subunit gamma 11 2791 Signaling GNG12 G protein subunit gamma 12 55970 Signaling Signaling GNG13 G protein subunit gamma 13 51764 Signaling Signaling GNG2 G protein subunit gamma 2 54331 Signaling Signaling GNG3 G protein subunit gamma 3 2785 Signaling Signaling GNG4 G protein subunit gamma 4 2786 Signaling GNG5 G protein subunit gamma 5 2787 Signaling GNG7 G protein subunit gamma 7 2788 Signaling GNG8 G protein subunit gamma 8 94235 Signaling Signaling GNGT2 G protein subunit gamma 2793 Signaling transducin 2 GNMT Glycine N-methyltransferase 27232 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis GNRH1 Gonadotropin releasing 2796 Neuropeptide Ligand hormone 1 GNRH2 Gonadotropin releasing 2797 Neuropeptide Ligand hormone 2 GPER1 G protein-coupled estrogen 2852 Other Receptor receptor 1 GPHN Gephyrin 10243 Neuropeptide Ligand GPI Glucose-6-phosphate 2821 Signaling Signaling isomerase GPR1 G protein-coupled receptor 1 2825 Other Receptor GPR139 G protein-coupled receptor 124274 Neurotransmitter Receptor 139 GPR143 G protein-coupled receptor 4935 Neurotransmitter Receptor 143 GPR149 G protein-coupled receptor 344758 Neurotransmitter Receptor 149 GPR18 G protein-coupled receptor 18 2841 Other Receptor GPR21 G protein-coupled receptor 21 2844 Other Receptor GPR26 G protein-coupled receptor 26 2849 Other Receptor GPR35 G protein-coupled receptor 35 2859 Other Receptor GPR37 Receptor for prosaposin 2861 Neurotrophic Receptor GPR52 G protein-coupled receptor 52 9293 Neurotransmitter Receptor GPR55 G protein-coupled receptor 55 9290 Neurotransmitter Receptor GPR78 G protein-coupled receptor 78 27201 Neurotransmitter Receptor GPR83 G protein-coupled receptor 83 10888 Neurotransmitter Receptor GPR84 G protein-coupled receptor 84 53831 Neurotransmitter Receptor GPRASP1 G protein-coupled receptor 9737 Neurotransmitter Receptor associated sorting protein 1 GPRC6A G protein-coupled receptor 222545 Signaling Signaling class C group 6 member A GPRIN1 G protein regulated inducer of 114787 Neurotrophic Signaling neurite outgrowth 1 GPRIN2 G protein regulated inducer of 9721 Neurotrophic Signaling neurite outgrowth 2 GPRIN3 G protein regulated inducer of 285513 Neurotrophic Signaling neurite outgrowth 3 GRB2 Growth factor receptor bound 2885 Neurotrophic Signaling protein 2 GRIA1 Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2890 Neurotransmitter Receptor AMPA type subunit 1 GRIA2 Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2891 Neurotransmitter Receptor AMPA type subunit 2 GRIA3 Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2892 Neurotransmitter Receptor AMPA type subunit 3 GRIA4 Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2893 Neurotransmitter Receptor AMPA type subunit 4 GRID1 Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2894 Neurotransmitter Receptor delta type subunit 1 GRID2 Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2895 Neurotransmitter Receptor delta type subunit 2 GRIK1 Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2897 Neurotransmitter Receptor kainate type subunit 1 GRIK2 Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2898 Neurotransmitter Receptor kainate type subunit 2 GRIK3 Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2899 Neurotransmitter Receptor kainate type subunit 3 GRIK4 Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2900 Neurotransmitter Receptor kainate type subunit 4 GRIK5 Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2901 Neurotransmitter Receptor kainate type subunit 5 GRIN1 Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2902 Neurotransmitter Receptor NMDA type subunit 1 GRIN2A Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2903 Neurotransmitter Receptor NMDA type subunit 2A GRIN2B Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2904 Neurotransmitter Receptor NMDA type subunit 2B GRIN2C Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2905 Neurotransmitter Receptor NMDA type subunit 2C GRIN2D Glutamate ionotropic receptor 2906 Neurotransmitter Receptor NMDA type subunit 2D GRIN3A Glutamate ionotropic receptor 116443 Neurotransmitter Receptor NMDA type subunit 3A GRIN3B Glutamate ionotropic receptor 116444 Neurotransmitter Receptor NMDA type subunit 3B GRK2 G protein-coupled receptor 156 Neurotransmitter Receptor kinase 2 GRK3 G protein-coupled receptor 157 Neurotransmitter Receptor kinase 3 GRK4 G protein-coupled receptor 2868 Signaling Signaling kinase 4 GRK5 G protein-coupled receptor 2869 Signaling Signaling kinase 5 GRM1 Glutamate metabotropic 2911 Neurotransmitter Receptor receptor 1 GRM2 Glutamate metabotropic 2912 Neurotransmitter Receptor receptor 2 GRM3 Glutamate metabotropic 2913 Neurotransmitter Receptor receptor 3 GRM4 Glutamate metabotropic 2914 Neurotransmitter Receptor receptor 4 GRM5 Glutamate metabotropic 2915 Neurotransmitter Receptor receptor 5 GRM6 Glutamate metabotropic 2916 Neurotransmitter Receptor receptor 6 GRM7 Glutamate metabotropic 2917 Neurotransmitter Receptor receptor 7 GRM8 Glutamate metabotropic 2918 Neurotransmitter Receptor receptor 8 GRP Gastrin releasing peptide 2922 Neuropeptide Ligand GRPR Gastrin releasing peptide 2925 Neuropeptide Receptor receptor GSK3A Glycogen synthase kinase 3 2931 Signaling Signaling alpha GSK3B Glycogen synthase kinase 3 2932 Signaling Signaling beta GTF2H2 General transcription factor 2966 Other Miscelaneous IIH subunit 2 GZF1 GDNF-inducible zinc finger 64412 Neurotrophic Signaling protein 1 HAP1 Huntingtin associated protein 9001 Other Miscelaneous 1 HCN1 Hyperpolarization activated 348980 Channel or Channel cyclic nucleotide gated transporter potassium channel 1 HCN2 Hyperpolarization activated 610 Channel or Channel cyclic nucleotide gated transporter potassium channel 2 HCN3 Hyperpolarization activated 57657 Channel or Channel cyclic nucleotide gated transporter potassium channel 3 HCN4 Hyperpolarization activated 10021 Channel or Channel cyclic nucleotide gated transporter potassium channel 4 HCRT Hypocretin neuropeptide 3060 Neuropeptide Ligand precursor HCRTR1 Hypocretin receptor 1 3061 Neuropeptide Receptor HCRTR2 Hypocretin receptor 2 3062 Neuropeptide Receptor HIP1 Huntingtin interacting protein 1 3092 Other Miscelaneous HK2 Hexokinase 2 3099 Other Miscelaneous HMOX1 Heme oxygenase 1 3162 Other Miscelaneous HMOX2 Heme oxygenase 2 3163 Other Miscelaneous HNMT Histamine N- 3176 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis methyltransferase HOMER1 Homer scaffolding protein 1 9456 Neurotransmitter Receptor HRAS Hras proto-oncogene, gtpase 3265 Signaling Signaling HRH1 Histamine receptor H1 3269 Neurotransmitter Receptor HRH2 Histamine receptor H2 3274 Neurotransmitter Receptor HRH3 Histamine receptor H3 11255 Neurotransmitter Receptor HRH4 Histamine receptor H4 59340 Neurotransmitter Receptor HSPA8 Heat shock protein family A 3312 Vesicular Vesicles (Hsp70) member 8 HTL High L-leucine transport 3343 Channel or Transporter transporter HTR1A 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3350 Neurotransmitter Receptor 1A HTR1B 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3351 Neurotransmitter Receptor 1B HTR1D 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3352 Neurotransmitter Receptor 1D HTR1E 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3354 Neurotransmitter Receptor 1E HTR1F 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3355 Neurotransmitter Receptor 1F HTR2A 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3356 Neurotransmitter Receptor 2A HTR2B 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3357 Neurotransmitter Receptor 2B HTR2C 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3358 Neurotransmitter Receptor 2C HTR3A 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3359 Neurotransmitter Receptor 3A HTR3B 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 9177 Neurotransmitter Receptor 3B HTR3C 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 170572 Neurotransmitter Receptor 3C HTR3D 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 200909 Neurotransmitter Receptor 3D HTR3E 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 285242 Neurotransmitter Receptor 3E HTR4 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3360 Neurotransmitter Receptor 4 HTR5A 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3361 Neurotransmitter Receptor 5A HTR5BP 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 645694 Neurotransmitter Receptor 5B, pseudogene HTR6 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3362 Neurotransmitter Receptor 6 HTR7 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 3363 Neurotransmitter Receptor 7 HTT Huntingtin 3064 Other Miscelaneous HVCN1 Hydrogen voltage gated 84329 Channel or Channel channel 1 transporter IAPP Islet amyloid polypeptide 3375 Neuropeptide Ligand ICA1 Islet cell autoantigen 1 3382 Other Miscelaneous IFNA1 Interferon alpha 1 3439 Neurotrophic Ligand IGF1 Insulin like growth factor 1 3479 Neurotrophic Ligand IGF2 Insulin like growth factor 2 3481 Neurotrophic Ligand IL11RA Interleukin 11 receptor subunit 3590 Neurotrophic Receptor alpha IL1B Interleukin 1 beta 3553 Neurotrophic Ligand IL3 Interleukin 3 3562 Neurotrophic Ligand IL4 Interleukin 4 3565 Neurotrophic Ligand IL6 Interleukin 6 3569 Neurotrophic Ligand IL6R Interleukin 6 receptor 3570 Neurotrophic Receptor IL6ST Interleukin 6 signal transducer 3572 Neurotrophic Signaling INS Insulin 3630 Neurotrophic Ligand ITPR1 Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 3708 Neurotransmitter Signaling receptor type 1 ITPR2 Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 3709 Neurotransmitter Signaling receptor type 2 ITPR3 Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 3710 Neurotransmitter Signaling receptor type 3 KALRN Kalirin, rhogef kinase 8997 Vesicular Vesicles KCNA1 Potassium voltage-gated 3736 Channel or Channel channel subfamily A member transporter 1 KCNA10 Potassium voltage-gated 3744 Channel or Channel channel subfamily A member transporter 10 KCNA2 Potassium voltage-gated 3737 Channel or Channel channel subfamily A member transporter 2 KCNA3 Potassium voltage-gated 3738 Channel or Channel channel subfamily A member transporter 3 KCNA4 Potassium voltage-gated 3739 Channel or Channel channel subfamily A member transporter 4 KCNA5 Potassium voltage-gated 3741 Channel or Channel channel subfamily A member transporter 5 KCNA6 Potassium voltage-gated 3742 Channel or Channel channel subfamily A member transporter 6 KCNA7 Potassium voltage-gated 3743 Channel or Channel channel subfamily A member transporter 7 KCNAB1 Potassium voltage-gated 7881 Channel or Channel channel subfamily A member transporter regulatory beta subunit 1 KCNAB2 Potassium voltage-gated 8514 Channel or Channel channel subfamily A transporter regulatory beta subunit 2 KCNB1 Potassium voltage-gated 3745 Channel or Channel channel subfamily B member transporter 1 KCNB2 Potassium voltage-gated 9312 Channel or Channel channel subfamily B member transporter 2 KCNC1 Potassium voltage-gated 3746 Channel or Channel channel subfamily C member transporter 1 KCNC2 Potassium voltage-gated 3747 Channel or Channel channel subfamily C member transporter 2 KCNC3 Potassium voltage-gated 3748 Channel or Channel channel subfamily C member transporter 3 KCNC4 Potassium voltage-gated 3749 Channel or Channel channel subfamily C member transporter 4 KCND1 Potassium voltage-gated 3750 Channel or Channel channel subfamily D member transporter 1 KCND2 Potassium voltage-gated 3751 Channel or Channel channel subfamily D member transporter 2 KCND3 Potassium voltage-gated 3752 Channel or Channel channel subfamily D member transporter 3 KCNE2 Potassium voltage-gated 9992 Channel or Channel channel subfamily E transporter regulatory subunit 2 KCNE3 Potassium voltage-gated 10008 Channel or Channel channel subfamily E transporter regulatory subunit 3 KCNE4 Potassium voltage-gated 23704 Channel or Channel channel subfamily E transporter regulatory subunit 4 KCNF1 Potassium voltage-gated 3754 Channel or Channel channel modifier subfamily F transporter member 1 KCNG1 Potassium voltage-gated 3755 Channel or Channel channel modifier subfamily G transporter member 1 KCNG2 Potassium voltage-gated 26251 Channel or Channel channel modifier subfamily G transporter member 2 KCNG3 Potassium voltage-gated 170850 Channel or Channel channel modifier subfamily G transporter member 3 KCNG4 Potassium voltage-gated 93107 Channel or Channel channel modifier subfamily G transporter member 4 KCNH1 Potassium voltage-gated 3756 Channel or Channel channel subfamily H member transporter 1 KCNH2 Potassium voltage-gated 3757 Channel or Channel channel subfamily H member transporter 2 KCNH3 Potassium voltage-gated 23416 Channel or Channel channel subfamily H member transporter 3 KCNH4 Potassium voltage-gated 23415 Channel or Channel channel subfamily H member transporter 4 KCNH5 Potassium voltage-gated 27133 Channel or Channel channel subfamily H member transporter 5 KCNH6 Potassium voltage-gated 81033 Channel or Channel channel subfamily H member transporter 6 KCNH7 Potassium voltage-gated 90134 Channel or Channel channel subfamily H member transporter 7 KCNH8 Potassium voltage-gated 131096 Channel or Channel channel subfamily H member transporter 8 KCNJ1 Potassium voltage-gated 3758 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member 1 transporter KCNJ10 Potassium voltage-gated 3766 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member transporter 10 KCNJ11 Potassium voltage-gated 3767 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member transporter 11 KCNJ12 Potassium voltage-gated 3768 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member transporter 12 KCNJ13 Potassium voltage-gated 3769 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member transporter 13 KCNJ14 Potassium voltage-gated 3770 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member transporter 14 KCNJ15 Potassium voltage-gated 3772 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member transporter 15 KCNJ16 Potassium voltage-gated 3773 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member transporter 16 KCNJ2 Potassium voltage-gated 3759 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member 2 transporter KCNJ3 Potassium voltage-gated 3760 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member 3 transporter KCNJ4 Potassium voltage-gated 3761 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member 4 transporter KCNJ5 Potassium voltage-gated 3762 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member 5 transporter KCNJ6 Potassium voltage-gated 3763 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member 6 transporter KCNJ8 Potassium voltage-gated 3764 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member 8 transporter KCNJ9 Potassium voltage-gated 3765 Channel or Channel channel subfamily J member 9 transporter KCNK1 Potassium two pore domain 3775 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 1 KCNK10 Potassium two pore domain 54207 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 10 KCNK12 Potassium two pore domain 56660 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 12 KCNK13 Potassium two pore domain 56659 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 13 KCNK15 Potassium two pore domain 60598 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 15 KCNK16 Potassium two pore domain 83795 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 16 KCNK17 Potassium two pore domain 89822 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 17 KCNK18 Potassium two pore domain 338567 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 18 KCNK2 Potassium two pore domain 3776 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 2 KCNK3 Potassium two pore domain 3777 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 3 KCNK4 Potassium two pore domain 50801 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 4 KCNK5 Potassium two pore domain 8645 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 5 KCNK6 Potassium two pore domain 9424 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 6 KCNK7 Potassium two pore domain 10089 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 7 KCNK9 Potassium two pore domain 51305 Channel or Channel channel subfamily K member transporter 9 KCNMA1 Potassium calcium-activated 3778 Channel or Channel channel subfamily M alpha 1 transporter KCNMB4 Potassium calcium-activated 27345 Channel or Channel channel subfamily M transporter regulatory beta subunit 4 KCNN1 Potassium calcium-activated 3780 Channel or Channel channel subfamily N member transporter 1 KCNN2 Potassium calcium-activated 3781 Channel or Channel channel subfamily N member transporter 2 KCNN3 Potassium calcium-activated 3782 Channel or Channel channel subfamily N member transporter 3 KCNN4 Potassium calcium-activated 3783 Channel or Channel channel subfamily N member transporter 4 KCNQ1 Potassium voltage-gated 3784 Channel or Channel channel subfamily Q member transporter 1 KCNQ2 Potassium voltage-gated 3785 Channel or Channel channel subfamily Q member transporter 2 KCNQ3 Potassium voltage-gated 3786 Channel or Channel channel subfamily Q member transporter 3 KCNQ4 Potassium voltage-gated 9132 Channel or Channel channel subfamily Q member transporter 4 KCNQ5 Potassium voltage-gated 56479 Channel or Channel channel subfamily Q member transporter 5 KCNS1 Potassium voltage-gated 3787 Channel or Channel channel modifier subfamily S transporter member 1 KCNS2 Potassium voltage-gated 3788 Channel or Channel channel modifier subfamily S transporter member 2 KCNS3 Potassium voltage-gated 3790 Channel or Channel channel modifier subfamily S transporter member 3 KCNT1 Potassium sodium-activated 57582 Channel or Channel channel subfamily T member transporter 1 KCNT2 Potassium sodium-activated 343450 Channel or Channel channel subfamily T member transporter 2 KCNU1 Potassium calcium-activated 157855 Channel or Channel channel subfamily U member transporter 1 KCNV1 Potassium voltage-gated 27012 Channel or Channel channel modifier subfamily V transporter member 1 KCNV2 Potassium voltage-gated 169522 Channel or Channel channel modifier subfamily V transporter member 2 KIF1B Kinesin family member 1B 23095 Vesicular Vesicles KISS1 Kiss-1 metastasis-suppressor 3814 Neuropeptide Ligand KISS1R KISS1 receptor 84634 Neuropeptide Receptor KLF16 Kruppel like factor 16 83855 Other Miscelaneous KRAS KRAS proto-oncogene, gtpase 3845 Signaling Signaling L1CAM L1 cell adhesion molecule 3897 Neurotrophic Signaling LAMTOR3 Late endosomal/lysosomal 8649 Signaling Signaling adaptor, MAPK and MTOR activator 3 LEP Leptin 3952 Neuropeptide Ligand LHCGR Luteinizing 3973 Neuropeptide Receptor hormone/choriogonadotropin receptor LIF Leukemia inhibitory factor 3976 Neuropeptide Ligand LIFR Leukemia inhibitory factor 3977 Neurotrophic Receptor receptor alpha LIN7A Lin-7 homolog A, crumbs cell 8825 Vesicular Vesicles polarity complex component LIN7B Lin-7 homolog B, crumbs cell 64130 Vesicular Vesicles polarity complex component LIN7C Lin-7 homolog C, crumbs cell 55327 Vesicular Vesicles polarity complex component LPAR3 Lysophosphatidic acid 23566 Other Miscelaneous receptor 3 LRP8 LDL receptor related protein 8 7804 Other Miscelaneous LRRK2 Leucine rich repeat kinase 2 120892 Other Miscelaneous LTB4R Leukotriene B4 receptor 1241 Other Miscelaneous LTB4R2 Leukotriene B4 receptor 2 56413 Other Miscelaneous LYNX1 Ly6/neurotoxin 1 66004 Neurotransmitter Receptor MAGED1 Melanoma-associated antigen 9500 Neurotrophic Signaling D1 MANF Mesencephalic astrocyte 7873 Neurotrophic Ligand derived neurotrophic factor MAOA Monoamine oxidase A 4128 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis MAOB Monoamine oxidase B 4129 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis MAP2K1 Mitogen-activated protein 5604 Signaling Signaling kinase kinase 1 MAP2K2 Mitogen-activated protein 5605 Signaling Signaling kinase kinase 2 MAP3K1 Mitogen-activated protein 4214 Signaling Signaling kinase kinase kinase 1 MAPK1 Mitogen-activated protein 5594 Signaling Signaling kinase 1 MAPK14 Mitogen-activated protein 1432 Signaling Signaling kinase 14 MAPK3 Mitogen-activated protein 5595 Signaling Signaling kinase 3 MAPK8IP2 Mitogen-activated protein 23542 Signaling Signaling kinase 8 interacting protein 2 MC1R Melanocortin 1 receptor 4157 Neuropeptide Receptor MC2R Melanocortin 2 receptor 4158 Neuropeptide Receptor MC3R Melanocortin 3 receptor 4159 Neuropeptide Receptor MC4R Melanocortin 4 receptor 4160 Neuropeptide Receptor MC5R Melanocortin 5 receptor 4161 Neuropeptide Receptor MCHR1 Melanin concentrating 2847 Neuropeptide Receptor hormone receptor 1 MCHR2 Melanin concentrating 84539 Neuropeptide Receptor hormone receptor 2 MCOLN1 Mucolipin 1 57192 Channel or Channel transporter MCOLN2 Mucolipin 2 255231 Channel or Channel transporter MCOLN3 Mucolipin 3 55283 Channel or Channel transporter MEF2C Myocyte enhancer factor 2C 4208 Other Miscelaneous MFSD7 Major facilitator superfamily 84179 Channel or Transporter domain containing 7 transporter MIR204 Microrna 204 406987 Other Miscelaneous MLN Motilin 4295 Neuropeptide Ligand MME Membrane 4311 Neuropeptide Biosynthesis metalloendopeptidase MRAP Melanocortin 2 receptor 56246 Neuropeptide Receptor accessory protein MRAP2 Melanocortin 2 receptor 112609 Neuropeptide Receptor accessory protein 2 MRGPRF MAS related GPR family 116535 Neurotransmitter Receptor member F MRGPRX2 MAS related GPR family 117194 Neurotransmitter Receptor member X2 MT3 Metallothionein 3 4504 Other Miscelaneous MT-ATP6 Mitochondrially encoded ATP 4508 Channel or Transporter synthase 6 transporter MT-ATP8 Mitochondrially encoded ATP 4509 Channel or Transporter synthase 8 transporter MTCH1 Mitochondrial carrier 1 23787 Channel or Transporter transporter MTCH2 Mitochondrial carrier 2 23788 Channel or Transporter transporter MTNR1A Melatonin receptor 1A 4543 Neuropeptide Receptor MTNR1B Melatonin receptor 1B 4544 Neuropeptide Receptor NAAA N-acylethanolamine acid 27163 Vesicular Vesicles amidase NAALAD2 N-acetylated alpha-linked 10003 Neuropeptide Biosynthesis acidic dipeptidase 2 NALCN Sodium leak channel, non- 259232 Channel or Channel selective transporter NAMPT Nicotinamide 10135 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis phosphoribosyltransferase NANOGNB NANOG neighbor homeobox 360030 Vesicular Vesicles NDNF Neuron derived neurotrophic 79625 Neurotrophic Ligand factor NDP NDP, norrin cystine knot 4693 Other Miscelaneous growth factor NENF Neudesin neurotrophic factor 29937 Neurotrophic Ligand NENFP1 Neudesin neurotrophic factor 106480294 Neurotrophic Ligand pseudogene 1 NENFP2 Neudesin neurotrophic factor 100129880 Neurotrophic Ligand pseudogene 2 NENFP3 Neudesin neurotrophic factor 106481703 Neurotrophic Ligand pseudogene 3 NF1 Neurofibromin 1 4763 Signaling Signaling NFKB1 Nuclear factor kappa B 4790 Other Miscelaneous subunit 1 NGF Nerve growth factor 4803 Neurotrophic Ligand NGFR Nerve growth factor receptor 4804 Neurotrophic Receptor NIPSNAP1 Nipsnap homolog 1 8508 Vesicular Vesicles (C. Elegans) NISCH Nischarin 11188 Neurotransmitter Receptor NLGN1 Neuroligin 1 22871 Synaptic Synapse NLGN2 Neuroligin 2 57555 Synaptic Synapse NLGN3 Neuroligin 3 54413 Synaptic Synapse NLGN4Y Neuroligin 4, Y-linked 22829 Synaptic Synapse NMB Neuromedin B 4828 Neuropeptide Ligand NMS Neuromedin S 129521 Neuropeptide Ligand NMU Neuromedin U 10874 Neuropeptide Ligand NMUR1 Neuromedin U receptor 1 10316 Neuropeptide Receptor NMUR2 Neuromedin U receptor 2 56923 Neuropeptide Receptor NOS1 Nitric oxide synthase 1 4842 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis NPB Neuropeptide B 256933 Neuropeptide Ligand NPBWR1 Neuropeptides B/W receptor 1 2831 Neuropeptide Receptor NPBWR2 Neuropeptides B/W receptor 2 2832 Neuropeptide Receptor NPC1L1 NPC1 like intracellular 29881 Channel or Transporter cholesterol transporter 1 transporter NPFF Neuropeptide FF-amide 8620 Neuropeptide Ligand peptide precursor NPFFR1 Neuropeptide FF receptor 1 64106 Neuropeptide Receptor NPFFR2 Neuropeptide FF receptor 2 10886 Neuropeptide Receptor NPPA Natriuretic peptide A 4878 Neuropeptide Ligand NPPB Natriuretic peptide B 4879 Neuropeptide Ligand NPPC Natriuretic peptide C 4880 Neuropeptide Ligand NPS Neuropeptide S 594857 Neuropeptide Ligand NPSR1 Neuropeptide S receptor 1 387129 Neuropeptide Receptor NPTN Neuroplastin 27020 Neurotransmitter Receptor NPVF Neuropeptide VF precursor 64111 Neuropeptide Ligand NPW Neuropeptide W 283869 Neuropeptide Ligand NPY Neuropeptide Y 4852 Neuropeptide Ligand NPY1R Neuropeptide Y receptor Y1 4886 Neuropeptide Receptor NPY2R Neuropeptide Y receptor Y2 4887 Neuropeptide Receptor NPY4R Neuropeptide Y receptor Y4 5540 Neuropeptide Receptor NPY5R Neuropeptide Y receptor Y5 4889 Neuropeptide Receptor NPY6R Neuropeptide Y receptor Y6 4888 Neuropeptide Receptor (pseudogene) NQO1 NAD(P)H quinone 1728 Other Miscelaneous dehydrogenase 1 NR4A2 Nuclear receptor subfamily 4 4929 Other Miscelaneous group A member 2 NRG1 Neuregulin 1 3084 Neurotrophic Ligand NRP1 Neuropilin 1 8829 Neurotrophic Receptor NRTN Neurturin 4902 Neurotrophic Ligand NRXN1 Neurexin 1 9378 Synaptic Receptor NRXN2 Neurexin 2 9379 Synaptic Receptor NRXN3 Neurexin 3 9369 Synaptic Receptor NSF N-ethylmaleimide sensitive 4905 Signaling Signaling factor, vesicle fusing atpase NTF3 Neurotrophin 3 4908 Neurotrophic Ligand NTF4 Neurotrophin 4 4909 Neurotrophic Ligand NTRK1 Neurotrophic receptor tyrosine 4914 Neurotrophic Receptor kinase 1 NTRK2 Neurotrophic receptor tyrosine 4915 Neurotrophic Receptor kinase 2 NTRK3 Neurotrophic receptor tyrosine 4916 Neurotrophic Receptor kinase 3 NTS Neurotensin 4922 Neuropeptide Ligand NTSR1 Neurotensin receptor 1 4923 Neuropeptide Receptor NTSR2 Neurotensin receptor 2 23620 Neuropeptide Receptor NUCB2 Nucleobindin 2 4925 Other Miscelaneous NXPH1 Neurexophilin 1 30010 Neuropeptide Ligand NXPH2 Neurexophilin 2 11249 Neuropeptide Ligand NXPH3 Neurexophilin 3 11248 Neuropeptide Ligand NXPH4 Neurexophilin 4 11247 Neuropeptide Ligand OGFR Opioid growth factor receptor 11054 Neuropeptide Receptor OPHN1 Oligophrenin 1 4983 Other Miscelaneous OPRD1 Opioid receptor delta 1 4985 Neuropeptide Receptor OPRK1 Opioid receptor kappa 1 4986 Neuropeptide Receptor OPRL1 Opioid related nociceptin 4987 Neuropeptide Receptor receptor 1 OPRM1 Opioid receptor mu 1 4988 Neuropeptide Receptor OTOF Otoferlin 9381 Other Miscelaneous OXT Oxytocin/neurophysin I 5020 Neuropeptide Ligand prepropeptide OXTR Oxytocin receptor 5021 Neuropeptide Receptor P2RX1 Purinergic receptor P2X 1 5023 Neurotransmitter Receptor P2RX2 Purinergic receptor P2X 2 22953 Neurotransmitter Receptor P2RX3 Purinergic receptor P2X 3 5024 Neurotransmitter Receptor P2RX4 Purinergic receptor P2X 4 5025 Neurotransmitter Receptor P2RX5 Purinergic receptor P2X 5 5026 Neurotransmitter Receptor P2RX6 Purinergic receptor P2X 6 9127 Neurotransmitter Receptor P2RX7 Purinergic receptor P2X 7 5027 Neurotransmitter Receptor P2RY11 Purinergic receptor P2Y11 5032 Neurotransmitter Receptor PAH Phenylalanine hydroxylase 5053 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis PANX1 Pannexin 1 24145 Channel or Channel transporter PANX2 Pannexin 2 56666 Channel or Channel transporter PANX3 Pannexin 3 116337 Channel or Channel transporter PARK2 Parkin RBR E3 ubiquitin 5071 Other Miscelaneous protein ligase PARK7 Parkinsonism associated 11315 Other Miscelaneous deglycase PATE4 Prostate and testis expressed 399968 Other Miscelaneous 4 PC Pyruvate carboxylase 5091 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis PCLO Piccolo presynaptic cytomatrix 27445 Other Miscelaneous protein PCSK1 Proprotein convertase 5122 Neuropeptide Biosynthesis subtilisin/kexin type 1 PCSK1N Proprotein convertase 27344 Neuropeptide Biosynthesis subtilisin/kexin type 1 inhibitor PDE1B Phosphodiesterase 1B 5153 Neurotransmitter Signaling PDE4A Phosphodiesterase 4A 5141 Neurotransmitter Signaling PDE4D Phosphodiesterase 4D 5144 Neurotransmitter Signaling PDK1 Pyruvate dehydrogenase 5163 Other Miscelaneous kinase 1 PDPK1 3-phosphoinositide dependent 5170 Neurotrophic Signaling protein kinase 1 PDYN Prodynorphin 5173 Other Miscelaneous PDZD11 PDZ domain containing 11 51248 Vesicular Vesicles PENK Proenkephalin 5179 Neuropeptide Ligand PHOX2A Paired like homeobox 2a 401 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis PHOX2B Paired like homeobox 2b 8929 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis PIK3CA Phosphatidylinositol-4,5- 5290 Neurotransmitter Signaling bisphosphate 3-kinase catalytic subunit alpha PIK3CB Phosphatidylinositol-4,5- 5291 Neurotransmitter Signaling bisphosphate 3-kinase catalytic subunit beta PIK3CG Phosphatidylinositol-4,5- 5294 Neurotransmitter Signaling bisphosphate 3-kinase catalytic subunit gamma PINK1 PTEN induced putative kinase 65018 Other Miscelaneous 1 PITX3 Paired like homeodomain 3 5309 Other Miscelaneous PKD2 Polycystin 2, transient 5311 Channel or Channel receptor potential cation transporter channel PKD2L1 Polycystin 2 like 1, transient 9033 Channel or Channel receptor potential cation transporter channel PKD2L2 Polycystin 2 like 2, transient 27039 Channel or Channel receptor potential cation transporter channel PLAT Plasminogen activator, tissue 5327 Other Miscelaneous type PLCB1 Phospholipase C beta 1 23236 Neurotransmitter Signaling PLCB2 Phospholipase C beta 2 5330 Neurotransmitter Signaling PLCB3 Phospholipase C beta 3 5331 Neurotransmitter Signaling PLCB4 Phospholipase C beta 4 5332 Neurotransmitter Signaling PLCD1 Phospholipase C delta 1 5333 Neurotransmitter Signaling PLCE1 Phospholipase C epsilon 1 51196 Neurotransmitter Signaling PLCG1 Phospholipase C gamma 1 5335 Neurotransmitter Signaling PLCL1 Phospholipase C like 1 5334 Neurotransmitter Signaling PLCL2 Phospholipase C like 2 23228 Neurotransmitter Signaling PLEKHH3 Pleckstrin homology, myth4 79990 Neurotrophic Signaling and FERM domain containing H3 PMCH Pro-melanin concentrating 5367 Neuropeptide Ligand hormone PNKD Paroxysmal nonkinesigenic 25953 Vesicular Vesicles dyskinesia PNOC Prepronociceptin 5368 Neuropeptide Ligand POMC Proopiomelanocortin 5443 Neuropeptide Ligand PPARG Peroxisome proliferator 5468 Other Miscelaneous activated receptor gamma PPFIA1 PTPRF interacting protein 8500 Vesicular Vesicles alpha 1 PPFIA2 PTPRF interacting protein 8499 Vesicular Vesicles alpha 2 PPFIA3 PTPRF interacting protein 8541 Vesicular Vesicles alpha 3 PPFIA4 PTPRF interacting protein 8497 Vesicular Vesicles alpha 4 PPP1CA Protein phosphatase 1 5499 Signaling Signaling catalytic subunit alpha PPP1CB Protein phosphatase 1 5500 Neurotransmitter Signaling catalytic subunit beta PPP1CC Protein phosphatase 1 5501 Neurotransmitter Signaling catalytic subunit gamma PPP1R12A Protein phosphatase 1 4659 Signaling Signaling regulatory subunit 12A PPP1R1B Protein phosphatase 1 84152 Signaling Signaling regulatory inhibitor subunit 1B PPP1R9A Protein phosphatase 1 55607 Signaling Signaling regulatory subunit 9A PPP2CA Protein phosphatase 2 5515 Signaling Signaling catalytic subunit alpha PPP3CA Protein phosphatase 3 5530 Signaling Signaling catalytic subunit alpha PPP3CB Protein phosphatase 3 5532 Signaling Signaling catalytic subunit beta PPP3CC Protein phosphatase 3 5533 Signaling Signaling catalytic subunit gamma PPP3R1 Protein phosphatase 3 5534 Signaling Signaling regulatory subunit B, alpha PPP3R2 Protein phosphatase 3 5535 Signaling Signaling regulatory subunit B, beta PPT1 Palmitoyl-protein thioesterase 5538 Other Miscelaneous 1 PPY Pancreatic polypeptide 5539 Neuropeptide Ligand PPY2P Pancreatic polypeptide 2, 23614 Neuropeptide Ligand pseudogene PRIMA1 Proline rich membrane anchor 145270 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis 1 PRKACA Protein kinase camp-activated 5566 Signaling Signaling catalytic subunit alpha PRKACB Protein kinase camp-activated 5567 Signaling Signaling catalytic subunit beta PRKACG Protein kinase camp-activated 5568 Neurotransmitter Signaling catalytic subunit gamma PRKAR1A Protein kinase camp- 5573 Signaling Signaling dependent type I regulatory subunit alpha PRKAR2A Protein kinase camp- 5576 Signaling Signaling dependent type II regulatory subunit alpha PRKAR2B Protein kinase camp- 5577 Neurotransmitter Signaling dependent type II regulatory subunit beta PRKCA Protein kinase C alpha 5578 Signaling Signaling PRKCD Protein kinase C delta 5580 Signaling Signaling PRKCE Protein kinase C epsilon 5581 Signaling Signaling PRKCG Protein kinase C gamma 5582 Neurotransmitter Signaling PRKX Protein kinase, X-linked 5613 Neurotransmitter Signaling PRL Prolactin 5617 Neuropeptide Ligand PRLH Prolactin releasing hormone 51052 Neuropeptide Ligand PRLHR Prolactin releasing hormone 2834 Neuropeptide Receptor receptor PRLR Prolactin receptor 5618 Neuropeptide Receptor PROK1 Prokineticin 1 84432 Neuropeptide Ligand PROK2 Prokineticin 2 60675 Neuropeptide Ligand PROKR1 Prokineticin receptor 1 10887 Neuropeptide Receptor PROKR2 Prokineticin receptor 2 128674 Neuropeptide Receptor PROM1 Prominin 1 8842 Other Miscelaneous PSAP Prosaposin 5660 Neurotrophic Ligand PSEN1 Presenilin 1 5663 Neurotrophic Signaling PSPN Persephin 5623 Neurotrophic Ligand PTEN Phosphatase and tensin 5728 Signaling Signaling homolog PTGDR Prostaglandin D2 receptor 5729 Neuropeptide Receptor PTGDR2 Prostaglandin D2 receptor 2 11251 Neuropeptide Receptor PTGER1 Prostaglandin E receptor 1 5731 Neuropeptide Receptor PTGER2 Prostaglandin E receptor 2 5732 Neuropeptide Receptor PTGER3 Prostaglandin E receptor 3 5733 Neuropeptide Receptor PTGER4 Prostaglandin E receptor 4 5734 Neuropeptide Receptor PTGFR Prostaglandin F receptor 5737 Neuropeptide Receptor PTGIR Prostaglandin I2 (prostacyclin) 5739 Neuropeptide Receptor receptor (IP) PTGS2 Prostaglandin-endoperoxide 5743 Neuropeptide Biosynthesis synthase 2 PTH Parathyroid hormone 5741 Neuropeptide Ligand PTH1R Parathyroid hormone 1 5745 Neuropeptide Receptor receptor PTH2 Parathyroid hormone 2 113091 Neuropeptide Ligand PTH2R Parathyroid hormone 2 5746 Neuropeptide Receptor receptor PTHLH Parathyroid hormone like 5744 Neuropeptide Ligand hormone PTK2 Protein tyrosine kinase 2 5747 Neuropeptide Signaling PTK2B Protein tyrosine kinase 2 beta 2185 Neuropeptide Signaling PTN Pleiotrophin 5764 Neurotrophic Ligand PTPA Protein phosphatase 2 5524 Signaling Signaling phosphatase activator PTPRN2 Protein tyrosine phosphatase, 5799 Other Miscelaneous receptor type N2 PXK PX domain containing 54899 Vesicular Vesicles serine/threonine kinase like PYY Peptide YY 5697 Neuropeptide Ligand PYY2 Peptide YY 2 (pseudogene) 23615 Neuropeptide Ligand PYY3 Peptide YY 3 (pseudogene) 644059 Neuropeptide Ligand QRFP Pyroglutamylated rfamide 347148 Neuropeptide Ligand peptide QRFPR Pyroglutamylated rfamide 84109 Neuropeptide Receptor peptide receptor RAB3A RAB3A, member RAS 5864 Signaling Signaling oncogene family RAB3GAP1 RAB3 gtpase activating 22930 Vesicular Vesicles protein catalytic subunit 1 RAF1 Raf-1 proto-oncogene, 5894 Signaling Signaling serine/threonine kinase RAI1 Retinoic acid induced 1 10743 Other Miscelaneous RAMP1 Receptor activity modifying 10267 Neuropeptide Receptor protein 1 RAMP2 Receptor activity modifying 10266 Neuropeptide Receptor protein 2 RAMP3 Receptor activity modifying 10268 Neuropeptide Receptor protein 3 RAP1A RAP1A, member of RAS 5906 Signaling Signaling oncogene family RAP1GAP RAP1 gtpase activating 5909 Other Miscelaneous protein RAPGEF2 Rap guanine nucleotide 9693 Other Miscelaneous exchange factor 2 RAPGEF3 Rap guanine nucleotide 10411 Signaling Signaling exchange factor 3 RAPSN Receptor associated protein of 5913 Synaptic Receptor the synapse RELN Reelin 5649 Neurotrophic Ligand RET Ret proto-oncogene 5979 Neurotrophic Signaling RETN Resistin 56729 Other Miscelaneous RETNLB Resistin like beta 84666 Other Miscelaneous RGN Regucalcin 9104 Signaling Signaling RGS10 Regulator of G-protein 6001 Signaling Signaling signaling 10 RGS8 Regulator of G-protein 85397 Signaling Signaling signaling 8 RGS9 Regulator of G-protein 8787 Signaling Signaling signaling 9 RHAG Rh-associated glycoprotein 6005 Channel or Transporter transporter RHBG Rh family B glycoprotein 57127 Channel or Transporter (gene/pseudogene) transporter RHCG Rh family C glycoprotein 51458 Channel or Transporter transporter RHOA Ras homolog family member 387 Signaling Signaling A RIC3 RIC3 acetylcholine receptor 79608 Neurotransmitter Receptor chaperone RIC8A RIC8 guanine nucleotide 60626 Signaling Signaling exchange factor A RIMS1 Regulating synaptic 22999 Vesicular Vesicles membrane exocytosis 1 RIMS2 Regulating synaptic 9699 Vesicular Vesicles membrane exocytosis 2 RIMS3 Regulating synaptic 9783 Vesicular Vesicles membrane exocytosis 3 RIMS4 Regulating synaptic 140730 Vesicular Vesicles membrane exocytosis 4 RLN1 Relaxin 1 6013 Neuropeptide Ligand RLN2 Relaxin 2 6019 Neuropeptide Ligand RLN3 Relaxin 3 117579 Neuropeptide Ligand RNF40 Ring finger protein 40 9810 Other Miscelaneous ROR1 Receptor tyrosine kinase like 4919 Neurotrophic Receptor orphan receptor 1 ROR2 Receptor tyrosine kinase like 4920 Neurotrophic Receptor orphan receptor 2 RPH3A Rabphilin 3A 22895 Vesicular Vesicles RPH3AL Rabphilin 3A-like (without C2 9501 Vesicular Vesicles domains) RPS6KA3 Ribosomal protein S6 kinase 6197 Neurotrophic Signaling A3 RPSA Ribosomal protein SA 3921 Other Miscelaneous RXFP1 Relaxin/insulin like family 59350 Neuropeptide Receptor peptide receptor 1 RXFP2 Relaxin/insulin like family 122042 Neuropeptide Receptor peptide receptor 2 RXFP3 Relaxin/insulin like family 51289 Neuropeptide Receptor peptide receptor 3 RXFP4 Relaxin/insulin like family 339403 Neuropeptide Receptor peptide receptor 4 RYR1 Ryanodine receptor 1 6261 Channel or Channel transporter RYR2 Ryanodine receptor 2 6262 Channel or Channel transporter RYR3 Ryanodine receptor 3 6263 Channel or Channel transporter S100B S100 calcium binding protein 6285 Signaling Signaling B S1PR4 Sphingosine-1-phosphate 8698 Neuropeptide Receptor receptor 4 SCG2 Secretogranin II 7857 Neuropeptide Vesicles SCG3 Secretogranin III 29106 Neuropeptide Vesicles SCG5 Secretogranin V 6447 Neuropeptide Vesicles SCN10A Sodium voltage-gated channel 6336 Channel or Channel alpha subunit 10 transporter SCN11A Sodium voltage-gated channel 11280 Channel or Channel alpha subunit 11 transporter SCN1A Sodium voltage-gated channel 6323 Channel or Channel alpha subunit 1 transporter SCN1B Sodium voltage-gated channel 6324 Channel or Channel beta subunit 1 transporter SCN2A Sodium voltage-gated channel 6326 Channel or Channel alpha subunit 2 transporter SCN2B Sodium voltage-gated channel 6327 Channel or Channel beta subunit 2 transporter SCN3A Sodium voltage-gated channel 6328 Channel or Channel alpha subunit 3 transporter SCN3B Sodium voltage-gated channel 55800 Channel or Channel beta subunit 3 transporter SCN4A Sodium voltage-gated channel 6329 Channel or Channel alpha subunit 4 transporter SCN4B Sodium voltage-gated channel 6330 Channel or Channel beta subunit 4 transporter SCN5A Sodium voltage-gated channel 6331 Channel or Channel alpha subunit 5 transporter SCN7A Sodium voltage-gated channel 6332 Channel or Channel alpha subunit 7 transporter SCN8A Sodium voltage-gated channel 6334 Channel or Channel alpha subunit 8 transporter SCN9A Sodium voltage-gated channel 6335 Channel or Channel alpha subunit 9 transporter SCNN1A Sodium channel epithelial 1 6337 Channel or Channel alpha subunit transporter SCNN1B Sodium channel epithelial 1 6338 Channel or Channel beta subunit transporter SCNN1D Sodium channel epithelial 1 6339 Channel or Channel delta subunit transporter SCNN1G Sodium channel epithelial 1 6340 Channel or Channel gamma subunit transporter SCT Secretin 6343 Neuropeptide Ligand SDC3 Syndecan 3 9672 Neurotrophic Receptor SEC14L1 SEC14 like lipid binding 1 6397 Other Miscelaneous SEMA3E Semaphorin 3E 9723 Neurotrophic Ligand SERPINE2 Serpin family E member 2 5270 Neurotrophic Ligand SERPINF1 Serpin family F member 1 5176 Neurotrophic Ligand SHANK3 SH3 and multiple ankyrin 85358 Neurotransmitter Signaling repeat domains 3 SHC1 SHC adaptor protein 1 6464 Neurotrophic Signaling SHROOM1 Shroom family member 1 134549 Channel or Channel transporter SHROOM2 Shroom family member 2 357 Channel or Channel transporter SHROOM3 Shroom family member 3 57619 Channel or Channel transporter SHROOM4 Shroom family member 4 57477 Channel or Channel transporter SLC10A1 Solute carrier family 10 6554 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC10A2 Solute carrier family 10 6555 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC10A3 Solute carrier family 10 8273 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC10A4 Solute carrier family 10 201780 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC10A5 Solute carrier family 10 347051 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC10A6 Solute carrier family 10 345274 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC10A7 Solute carrier family 10 84068 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC11A1 Solute carrier family 11 6556 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC11A2 Solute carrier family 11 4891 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC12A1 Solute carrier family 12 6557 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC12A2 Solute carrier family 12 6558 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC12A3 Solute carrier family 12 6559 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC12A4 Solute carrier family 12 6560 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC12A5 Solute carrier family 12 57468 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC12A6 Solute carrier family 12 9990 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC12A7 Solute carrier family 12 10723 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC12A8 Solute carrier family 12 84561 Channel or Transporter member 8 transporter SLC12A9 Solute carrier family 12 56996 Channel or Transporter member 9 transporter SLC13A1 Solute carrier family 13 6561 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC13A2 Solute carrier family 13 9058 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC13A3 Solute carrier family 13 64849 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC13A4 Solute carrier family 13 26266 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC13A5 Solute carrier family 13 284111 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC14A1 Solute carrier family 14 6563 Channel or Transporter member 1 (Kidd blood group) transporter SLC14A2 Solute carrier family 14 8170 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC15A1 Solute carrier family 15 6564 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC15A2 Solute carrier family 15 6565 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC15A3 Solute carrier family 15 51296 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC15A4 Solute carrier family 15 121260 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC16A1 Solute carrier family 16 6566 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC16A10 Solute carrier family 16 117247 Channel or Transporter member 10 transporter SLC16A11 Solute carrier family 16 162515 Channel or Transporter member 11 transporter SLC16A12 Solute carrier family 16 387700 Channel or Transporter member 12 transporter SLC16A13 Solute carrier family 16 201232 Channel or Transporter member 13 transporter SLC16A14 Solute carrier family 16 151473 Channel or Transporter member 14 transporter SLC16A2 Solute carrier family 16 6567 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC16A3 Solute carrier family 16 9123 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC16A4 Solute carrier family 16 9122 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC16A5 Solute carrier family 16 9121 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC16A6 Solute carrier family 16 9120 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC16A7 Solute carrier family 16 9194 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC16A8 Solute carrier family 16 23539 Channel or Transporter member 8 transporter SLC16A9 Solute carrier family 16 220963 Channel or Transporter member 9 transporter SLC17A1 Solute carrier family 17 6568 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC17A2 Solute carrier family 17 10246 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC17A3 Solute carrier family 17 10786 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC17A4 Solute carrier family 17 10050 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC17A5 Solute carrier family 17 26503 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC17A6 Solute carrier family 17 57084 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC17A7 Solute carrier family 17 57030 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC17A8 Solute carrier family 17 246213 Channel or Transporter member 8 transporter SLC17A9 Solute carrier family 17 63910 Channel or Transporter member 9 transporter SLC18A1 Solute carrier family 18 6570 Channel or Transporter member A1 transporter SLC18A2 Solute carrier family 18 6571 Channel or Transporter member A2 transporter SLC18A3 Solute carrier family 18 6572 Channel or Transporter member A3 transporter SLC18B1 Solute carrier family 18 116843 Channel or Transporter member B1 transporter SLC19A1 Solute carrier family 19 6573 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC19A2 Solute carrier family 19 10560 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC19A3 Solute carrier family 19 80704 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC1A1 Solute carrier family 1 6505 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC1A2 Solute carrier family 1 6506 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC1A3 Solute carrier family 1 6507 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC1A6 Solute carrier family 1 6511 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC1A7 Solute carrier family 1 6512 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC20A1 Solute carrier family 20 6574 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC20A2 Solute carrier family 20 6575 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC22A1 Solute carrier family 22 6580 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC22A10 Solute carrier family 22 387775 Channel or Transporter member 10 transporter SLC22A11 Solute carrier family 22 55867 Channel or Transporter member 11 transporter SLC22A12 Solute carrier family 22 116085 Channel or Transporter member 12 transporter SLC22A13 Solute carrier family 22 9390 Channel or Transporter member 13 transporter SLC22A14 Solute carrier family 22 9389 Channel or Transporter member 14 transporter SLC22A15 Solute carrier family 22 55356 Channel or Transporter member 15 transporter SLC22A16 Solute carrier family 22 85413 Channel or Transporter member 16 transporter SLC22A17 Solute carrier family 22 51310 Channel or Transporter member 17 transporter SLC22A18 Solute carrier family 22 5002 Channel or Transporter member 18 transporter SLC22A2 Solute carrier family 22 6582 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC22A20 Solute carrier family 22 440044 Channel or Transporter member 20 transporter SLC22A23 Solute carrier family 22 63027 Channel or Transporter member 23 transporter SLC22A24 Solute carrier family 22 283238 Channel or Transporter member 24 transporter SLC22A25 Solute carrier family 22 387601 Channel or Transporter member 25 transporter SLC22A3 Solute carrier family 22 6581 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC22A31 Solute carrier family 22 146429 Channel or Transporter member 31 transporter SLC22A4 Solute carrier family 22 6583 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC22A5 Solute carrier family 22 6584 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC22A6 Solute carrier family 22 9356 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC22A7 Solute carrier family 22 10864 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC22A8 Solute carrier family 22 9376 Channel or Transporter member 8 transporter SLC22A9 Solute carrier family 22 114571 Channel or Transporter member 9 transporter SLC23A1 Solute carrier family 23 9963 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC23A2 Solute carrier family 23 9962 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC23A3 Solute carrier family 23 151295 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC23A4P Solute carrier family 23 641842 Channel or Transporter member 4, pseudogene transporter SLC24A1 Solute carrier family 24 9187 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC24A2 Solute carrier family 24 25769 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC24A3 Solute carrier family 24 57419 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC24A4 Solute carrier family 24 123041 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC24A5 Solute carrier family 24 283652 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC25A1 Solute carrier family 25 6576 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC25A10 Solute carrier family 25 1468 Channel or Transporter member 10 transporter SLC25A11 Solute carrier family 25 8402 Channel or Transporter member 11 transporter SLC25A12 Solute carrier family 25 8604 Channel or Transporter member 12 transporter SLC25A13 Solute carrier family 25 10165 Channel or Transporter member 13 transporter SLC25A14 Solute carrier family 25 9016 Channel or Transporter member 14 transporter SLC25A15 Solute carrier family 25 10166 Channel or Transporter member 15 transporter SLC25A16 Solute carrier family 25 8034 Channel or Transporter member 16 transporter SLC25A17 Solute carrier family 25 10478 Channel or Transporter member 17 transporter SLC25A18 Solute carrier family 25 83733 Channel or Transporter member 18 transporter SLC25A19 Solute carrier family 25 60386 Channel or Transporter member 19 transporter SLC25A2 Solute carrier family 25 83884 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC25A20 Solute carrier family 25 788 Channel or Transporter member 20 transporter SLC25A21 Solute carrier family 25 89874 Channel or Transporter member 21 transporter SLC25A22 Solute carrier family 25 79751 Channel or Transporter member 22 transporter SLC25A23 Solute carrier family 25 79085 Channel or Transporter member 23 transporter SLC25A24 Solute carrier family 25 29957 Channel or Transporter member 24 transporter SLC25A25 Solute carrier family 25 114789 Channel or Transporter member 25 transporter SLC25A26 Solute carrier family 25 115286 Channel or Transporter member 26 transporter SLC25A27 Solute carrier family 25 9481 Channel or Transporter member 27 transporter SLC25A28 Solute carrier family 25 81894 Channel or Transporter member 28 transporter SLC25A29 Solute carrier family 25 123096 Channel or Transporter member 29 transporter SLC25A3 Solute carrier family 25 5250 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC25A30 Solute carrier family 25 253512 Channel or Transporter member 30 transporter SLC25A31 Solute carrier family 25 83447 Channel or Transporter member 31 transporter SLC25A32 Solute carrier family 25 81034 Channel or Transporter member 32 transporter SLC25A33 Solute carrier family 25 84275 Channel or Transporter member 33 transporter SLC25A34 Solute carrier family 25 284723 Channel or Transporter member 34 transporter SLC25A35 Solute carrier family 25 399512 Channel or Transporter member 35 transporter SLC25A36 Solute carrier family 25 55186 Channel or Transporter member 36 transporter SLC25A37 Solute carrier family 25 51312 Channel or Transporter member 37 transporter SLC25A38 Solute carrier family 25 54977 Channel or Transporter member 38 transporter SLC25A39 Solute carrier family 25 51629 Channel or Transporter member 39 transporter SLC25A4 Solute carrier family 25 291 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC25A40 Solute carrier family 25 55972 Channel or Transporter member 40 transporter SLC25A41 Solute carrier family 25 284427 Channel or Transporter member 41 transporter SLC25A42 Solute carrier family 25 284439 Channel or Transporter member 42 transporter SLC25A43 Solute carrier family 25 203427 Channel or Transporter member 43 transporter SLC25A44 Solute carrier family 25 9673 Channel or Transporter member 44 transporter SLC25A45 Solute carrier family 25 283130 Channel or Transporter member 45 transporter SLC25A46 Solute carrier family 25 91137 Channel or Transporter member 46 transporter SLC25A47 Solute carrier family 25 283600 Channel or Transporter member 47 transporter SLC25A48 Solute carrier family 25 153328 Channel or Transporter member 48 transporter SLC25A5 Solute carrier family 25 292 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC25A51 Solute carrier family 25 92014 Channel or Transporter member 51 transporter SLC25A52 Solute carrier family 25 147407 Channel or Transporter member 52 transporter SLC25A53 Solute carrier family 25 401612 Channel or Transporter member 53 transporter SLC25A6 Solute carrier family 25 293 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC26A1 Solute carrier family 26 10861 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC26A10 Solute carrier family 26 65012 Channel or Transporter member 10 transporter SLC26A11 Solute carrier family 26 284129 Channel or Transporter member 11 transporter SLC26A2 Solute carrier family 26 1836 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC26A3 Solute carrier family 26 1811 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC26A4 Solute carrier family 26 5172 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC26A5 Solute carrier family 26 375611 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC26A6 Solute carrier family 26 65010 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC26A7 Solute carrier family 26 115111 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC26A8 Solute carrier family 26 116369 Channel or Transporter member 8 transporter SLC26A9 Solute carrier family 26 115019 Channel or Transporter member 9 transporter SLC27A1 Solute carrier family 27 376497 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC27A2 Solute carrier family 27 11001 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC27A3 Solute carrier family 27 11000 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC27A4 Solute carrier family 27 10999 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC27A5 Solute carrier family 27 10998 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC27A6 Solute carrier family 27 28965 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC28A1 Solute carrier family 28 9154 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC28A2 Solute carrier family 28 9153 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC28A3 Solute carrier family 28 64078 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC29A1 Solute carrier family 29 2030 Channel or Transporter member 1 (Augustine blood transporter group) SLC29A2 Solute carrier family 29 3177 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC29A3 Solute carrier family 29 55315 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC29A4 Solute carrier family 29 222962 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC2A1 Solute carrier family 2 6513 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC2A10 Solute carrier family 2 81031 Channel or Transporter member 10 transporter SLC2A11 Solute carrier family 2 66035 Channel or Transporter member 11 transporter SLC2A12 Solute carrier family 2 154091 Channel or Transporter member 12 transporter SLC2A13 Solute carrier family 2 114134 Channel or Transporter member 13 transporter SLC2A14 Solute carrier family 2 144195 Channel or Transporter member 14 transporter SLC2A2 Solute carrier family 2 6514 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC2A3 Solute carrier family 2 6515 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC2A4 Solute carrier family 2 6517 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC2A5 Solute carrier family 2 6518 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC2A6 Solute carrier family 2 11182 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC2A7 Solute carrier family 2 155184 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC2A8 Solute carrier family 2 29988 Channel or Transporter member 8 transporter SLC2A9 Solute carrier family 2 56606 Channel or Transporter member 9 transporter SLC30A1 Solute carrier family 30 7779 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC30A10 Solute carrier family 30 55532 Channel or Transporter member 10 transporter SLC30A2 Solute carrier family 30 7780 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC30A3 Solute carrier family 30 7781 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC30A4 Solute carrier family 30 7782 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC30A5 Solute carrier family 30 64924 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC30A6 Solute carrier family 30 55676 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC30A7 Solute carrier family 30 148867 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC30A8 Solute carrier family 30 169026 Channel or Transporter member 8 transporter SLC30A9 Solute carrier family 30 10463 Channel or Transporter member 9 transporter SLC31A1 Solute carrier family 31 1317 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC31A2 Solute carrier family 31 1318 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC32A1 Solute carrier family 32 140679 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC33A1 Solute carrier family 33 9197 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC34A1 Solute carrier family 34 6569 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC34A2 Solute carrier family 34 10568 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC34A3 Solute carrier family 34 142680 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC35A1 Solute carrier family 35 10559 Channel or Transporter member A1 transporter SLC35A2 Solute carrier family 35 7355 Channel or Transporter member A2 transporter SLC35A3 Solute carrier family 35 23443 Channel or Transporter member A3 transporter SLC35A4 Solute carrier family 35 113829 Channel or Transporter member A4 transporter SLC35A5 Solute carrier family 35 55032 Channel or Transporter member A5 transporter SLC35B1 Solute carrier family 35 10237 Channel or Transporter member B1 transporter SLC35B2 Solute carrier family 35 347734 Channel or Transporter member B2 transporter SLC35B3 Solute carrier family 35 51000 Channel or Transporter member B3 transporter SLC35B4 Solute carrier family 35 84912 Channel or Transporter member B4 transporter SLC35C1 Solute carrier family 35 55343 Channel or Transporter member C1 transporter SLC35C2 Solute carrier family 35 51006 Channel or Transporter member C2 transporter SLC35D1 Solute carrier family 35 23169 Channel or Transporter member D1 transporter SLC35D2 Solute carrier family 35 11046 Channel or Transporter member D2 transporter SLC35D3 Solute carrier family 35 340146 Channel or Transporter member D3 transporter SLC35E1 Solute carrier family 35 79939 Channel or Transporter member E1 transporter SLC35E2 Solute carrier family 35 9906 Channel or Transporter member E2 transporter SLC35E2B Solute carrier family 35 728661 Channel or Transporter member E2B transporter SLC35E3 Solute carrier family 35 55508 Channel or Transporter member E3 transporter SLC35E4 Solute carrier family 35 339665 Channel or Transporter member E4 transporter SLC35F1 Solute carrier family 35 222553 Channel or Transporter member F1 transporter SLC35F2 Solute carrier family 35 54733 Channel or Transporter member F2 transporter SLC35F3 Solute carrier family 35 148641 Channel or Transporter member F3 transporter SLC35F4 Solute carrier family 35 341880 Channel or Transporter member F4 transporter SLC35F5 Solute carrier family 35 80255 Channel or Transporter member F5 transporter SLC35F6 Solute carrier family 35 54978 Channel or Transporter member F6 transporter SLC35G1 Solute carrier family 35 159371 Channel or Transporter member G1 transporter SLC35G2 Solute carrier family 35 80723 Channel or Transporter member G2 transporter SLC35G3 Solute carrier family 35 146861 Channel or Transporter member G3 transporter SLC35G4 Solute carrier family 35 646000 Channel or Transporter member G4 transporter SLC35G5 Solute carrier family 35 83650 Channel or Transporter member G5 transporter SLC35G6 Solute carrier family 35 643664 Channel or Transporter member G6 transporter SLC36A1 Solute carrier family 36 206358 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC36A2 Solute carrier family 36 153201 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC36A3 Solute carrier family 36 285641 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC36A4 Solute carrier family 36 120103 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC37A1 Solute carrier family 37 54020 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC37A2 Solute carrier family 37 219855 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC37A3 Solute carrier family 37 84255 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC37A4 Solute carrier family 37 2542 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC38A1 Solute carrier family 38 81539 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC38A10 Solute carrier family 38 124565 Channel or Transporter member 10 transporter SLC38A11 Solute carrier family 38 151258 Channel or Transporter member 11 transporter SLC38A2 Solute carrier family 38 54407 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC38A3 Solute carrier family 38 10991 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC38A4 Solute carrier family 38 55089 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC38A5 Solute carrier family 38 92745 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC38A6 Solute carrier family 38 145389 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC38A7 Solute carrier family 38 55238 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC38A8 Solute carrier family 38 146167 Channel or Transporter member 8 transporter SLC38A9 Solute carrier family 38 153129 Channel or Transporter member 9 transporter SLC39A1 Solute carrier family 39 27173 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC39A10 Solute carrier family 39 57181 Channel or Transporter member 10 transporter SLC39A11 Solute carrier family 39 201266 Channel or Transporter member 11 transporter SLC39A12 Solute carrier family 39 221074 Channel or Transporter member 12 transporter SLC39A13 Solute carrier family 39 91252 Channel or Transporter member 13 transporter SLC39A14 Solute carrier family 39 23516 Channel or Transporter member 14 transporter SLC39A2 Solute carrier family 39 29986 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC39A3 Solute carrier family 39 29985 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC39A4 Solute carrier family 39 55630 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC39A5 Solute carrier family 39 283375 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC39A6 Solute carrier family 39 25800 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC39A7 Solute carrier family 39 7922 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC39A8 Solute carrier family 39 64116 Channel or Transporter member 8 transporter SLC39A9 Solute carrier family 39 55334 Channel or Transporter member 9 transporter SLC3A1 Solute carrier family 3 6519 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC3A2 Solute carrier family 3 6520 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC40A1 Solute carrier family 40 30061 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC41A1 Solute carrier family 41 254428 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC41A2 Solute carrier family 41 84102 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC41A3 Solute carrier family 41 54946 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC43A1 Solute carrier family 43 8501 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC43A2 Solute carrier family 43 124935 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC43A3 Solute carrier family 43 29015 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC44A1 Solute carrier family 44 23446 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC44A2 Solute carrier family 44 57153 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC44A3 Solute carrier family 44 126969 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC44A4 Solute carrier family 44 80736 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC44A5 Solute carrier family 44 204962 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC45A1 Solute carrier family 45 50651 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC45A2 Solute carrier family 45 51151 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC45A3 Solute carrier family 45 85414 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC45A4 Solute carrier family 45 57210 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC46A1 Solute carrier family 46 113235 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC46A2 Solute carrier family 46 57864 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC46A3 Solute carrier family 46 283537 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC47A1 Solute carrier family 47 55244 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC47A2 Solute carrier family 47 146802 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC48A1 Solute carrier family 48 55652 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC4A1 Solute carrier family 4 6521 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC4A10 Solute carrier family 4 57282 Channel or Transporter member 10 transporter SLC4A11 Solute carrier family 4 83959 Channel or Transporter member 11 transporter SLC4A2 Solute carrier family 4 6522 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC4A3 Solute carrier family 4 6508 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC4A4 Solute carrier family 4 8671 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC4A5 Solute carrier family 4 57835 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC4A7 Solute carrier family 4 9497 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC4A8 Solute carrier family 4 9498 Channel or Transporter member 8 transporter SLC4A9 Solute carrier family 4 83697 Channel or Transporter member 9 transporter SLC50A1 Solute carrier family 50 55974 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC51A Solute carrier family 51 alpha 200931 Channel or Transporter subunit transporter SLC51B Solute carrier family 51 beta 123264 Channel or Transporter subunit transporter SLC52A1 Solute carrier family 52 55065 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC52A2 Solute carrier family 52 79581 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC52A3 Solute carrier family 52 113278 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC5A1 Solute carrier family 5 6523 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC5A10 Solute carrier family 5 125206 Channel or Transporter member 10 transporter SLC5A11 Solute carrier family 5 115584 Channel or Transporter member 11 transporter SLC5A12 Solute carrier family 5 159963 Channel or Transporter member 12 transporter SLC5A2 Solute carrier family 5 6524 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC5A3 Solute carrier family 5 6526 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC5A4 Solute carrier family 5 6527 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC5A5 Solute carrier family 5 6528 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC5A6 Solute carrier family 5 8884 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC5A7 Solute carrier family 5 60482 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC5A8 Solute carrier family 5 160728 Channel or Transporter member 8 transporter SLC5A9 Solute carrier family 5 200010 Channel or Transporter member 9 transporter SLC6A1 Solute carrier family 6 6529 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC6A10P Solute carrier family 6 386757 Channel or Transporter member 10, pseudogene transporter SLC6A10PB Solute carrier family 6 653562 Channel or Transporter member 8 pseudogene transporter SLC6A11 Solute carrier family 6 6538 Channel or Transporter member 11 transporter SLC6A12 Solute carrier family 6 6539 Channel or Transporter member 12 transporter SLC6A13 Solute carrier family 6 6540 Channel or Transporter member 13 transporter SLC6A14 Solute carrier family 6 11254 Channel or Transporter member 14 transporter SLC6A15 Solute carrier family 6 55117 Channel or Transporter member 15 transporter SLC6A16 Solute carrier family 6 28968 Channel or Transporter member 16 transporter SLC6A17 Solute carrier family 6 388662 Channel or Transporter member 17 transporter SLC6A18 Solute carrier family 6 348932 Channel or Transporter member 18 transporter SLC6A19 Solute carrier family 6 340024 Channel or Transporter member 19 transporter SLC6A2 Solute carrier family 6 6530 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC6A20 Solute carrier family 6 54716 Channel or Transporter member 20 transporter SLC6A21P Solute carrier family 6 652969 Channel or Transporter member 21, pseudogene transporter SLC6A3 Solute carrier family 6 6531 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC6A4 Solute carrier family 6 6532 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC6A5 Solute carrier family 6 9152 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC6A6 Solute carrier family 6 6533 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC6A7 Solute carrier family 6 6534 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC6A8 Solute carrier family 6 6535 Channel or Transporter member 8 transporter SLC6A9 Solute carrier family 6 6536 Channel or Transporter member 9 transporter SLC7A1 Solute carrier family 7 6541 Channel or Transporter member 1 transporter SLC7A10 Solute carrier family 7 56301 Channel or Transporter member 10 transporter SLC7A11 Solute carrier family 7 23657 Channel or Transporter member 11 transporter SLC7A13 Solute carrier family 7 157724 Channel or Transporter member 13 transporter SLC7A14 Solute carrier family 7 57709 Channel or Transporter member 14 transporter SLC7A2 Solute carrier family 7 6542 Channel or Transporter member 2 transporter SLC7A3 Solute carrier family 7 84889 Channel or Transporter member 3 transporter SLC7A4 Solute carrier family 7 6545 Channel or Transporter member 4 transporter SLC7A5 Solute carrier family 7 8140 Channel or Transporter member 5 transporter SLC7A6 Solute carrier family 7 9057 Channel or Transporter member 6 transporter SLC7A7 Solute carrier family 7 9056 Channel or Transporter member 7 transporter SLC7A8 Solute carrier family 7 23428 Channel or Transporter member 8 transporter SLC7A9 Solute carrier family 7 11136 Channel or Transporter member 9 transporter SLC8A1 Solute carrier family 8 6546 Channel or Transporter member A1 transporter SLC8A2 Solute carrier family 8 6543 Channel or Transporter member A2 transporter SLC8A3 Solute carrier family 8 6547 Channel or Transporter member A3 transporter SLC8B1 Solute carrier family 8 80024 Channel or Transporter member B1 transporter SLC9A1 Solute carrier family 9 6548 Channel or Transporter member A1 transporter SLC9A2 Solute carrier family 9 6549 Channel or Transporter member A2 transporter SLC9A3 Solute carrier family 9 6550 Channel or Transporter member A3 transporter SLC9A4 Solute carrier family 9 389015 Channel or Transporter member A4 transporter SLC9A5 Solute carrier family 9 6553 Channel or Transporter member A5 transporter SLC9A6 Solute carrier family 9 10479 Channel or Transporter member A6 transporter SLC9A7 Solute carrier family 9 84679 Channel or Transporter member A7 transporter SLC9A8 Solute carrier family 9 23315 Channel or Transporter member A8 transporter SLC9A9 Solute carrier family 9 285195 Channel or Transporter member A9 transporter SLC9B1 Solute carrier family 9 150159 Channel or Transporter member B1 transporter SLC9B2 Solute carrier family 9 133308 Channel or Transporter member B2 transporter SLC9C1 Solute carrier family 9 285335 Channel or Transporter member C1 transporter SLC9C2 Solute carrier family 9 284525 Channel or Transporter member C2 (putative) transporter SLCO1A2 Solute carrier organic anion 6579 Channel or Transporter transporter family member transporter 1A2 SLCO1B1 Solute carrier organic anion 10599 Channel or Transporter transporter family member transporter 1B1 SLCO1B3 Solute carrier organic anion 28234 Channel or Transporter transporter family member transporter 1B3 SLCO1C1 Solute carrier organic anion 53919 Channel or Transporter transporter family member transporter 1C1 SLCO2A1 Solute carrier organic anion 6578 Channel or Transporter transporter family member transporter 2A1 SLCO2B1 Solute carrier organic anion 11309 Channel or Transporter transporter family member transporter 2B1 SLCO3A1 Solute carrier organic anion 28232 Channel or Transporter transporter family member transporter 3A1 SLCO4A1 Solute carrier organic anion 28231 Channel or Transporter transporter family member transporter 4A1 SLCO4C1 Solute carrier organic anion 353189 Channel or Transporter transporter family member transporter 4C1 SLCO5A1 Solute carrier organic anion 81796 Channel or Transporter transporter family member transporter 5A1 SLCO6A1 Solute carrier organic anion 133482 Channel or Transporter transporter family member transporter 6A1 SLURP1 Secreted LY6/PLAUR domain 57152 Other Miscelaneous containing 1 SMPD3 Sphingomyelin 55512 Other Miscelaneous phosphodiesterase 3 SNAP23 Synaptosome associated 8773 Vesicular Vesicles protein 23 SNAP25 Synaptosome associated 6616 Vesicular Vesicles protein 25 SNAP29 Synaptosome associated 9342 Vesicular Vesicles protein 29 SNAPIN SNAP associated protein 23557 Signaling Signaling SNCA Synuclein alpha 6622 Vesicular Vesicles SNCAIP Synuclein alpha interacting 9627 Vesicular Vesicles protein SNCB Synuclein beta 6620 Vesicular Vesicles SNCG Synuclein gamma 6623 Vesicular Vesicles SNPH Syntaphilin 9751 Vesicular Vesicles SNTG1 Syntrophin gamma 1 54212 Neurotrophic Biosynthesis SNX13 Sorting nexin 13 23161 Neurotransmitter Signaling SOD2 Superoxide dismutase 2, 6648 Other Miscelaneous mitochondrial SORCS1 Sortilin related VPS10 domain 114815 Neurotrophic Receptor containing receptor 1 SORCS2 Sortilin related VPS10 domain 57537 Neurotrophic Receptor containing receptor 2 SORCS3 Sortilin related VPS10 domain 22986 Neurotrophic Receptor containing receptor 3 SORT1 Sortilin 1 6272 Neurotrophic Receptor SOS1 SOS Ras/Rac guanine 6654 Signaling Signaling nucleotide exchange factor 1 SPX Spexin hormone 80763 Neuropeptide Ligand SRC SRC proto-oncogene, non- 6714 Signaling Signaling receptor tyrosine kinase SST Somatostatin 6750 Neuropeptide Ligand SSTR1 Somatostatin receptor 1 6751 Neuropeptide Receptor SSTR2 Somatostatin receptor 2 6752 Neuropeptide Receptor SSTR3 Somatostatin receptor 3 6753 Neuropeptide Receptor SSTR4 Somatostatin receptor 4 6754 Neuropeptide Receptor SSTR5 Somatostatin receptor 5 6755 Neuropeptide Receptor STAC3 SH3 and cysteine rich domain 246329 Other Miscelaneous 3 STRN Striatin 6801 Signaling Signaling STX10 Syntaxin 10 8677 Vesicular Vesicles STX11 Syntaxin 11 8676 Vesicular Vesicles STX16 Syntaxin 16 8675 Vesicular Vesicles STX19 Syntaxin 19 415117 Vesicular Vesicles STX1A Syntaxin 1A 6804 Vesicular Vesicles STX1B Syntaxin 1B 112755 Vesicular Vesicles STX2 Syntaxin 2 2054 Vesicular Vesicles STX3 Syntaxin 3 6809 Vesicular Vesicles STX4 Syntaxin 4 6810 Vesicular Vesicles STX6 Syntaxin 6 10228 Vesicular Vesicles STXBP1 Syntaxin binding protein 1 6812 Vesicular Vesicles STXBP5 Syntaxin binding protein 5 134957 Vesicular Vesicles SULF1 Sulfatase 1 23213 Neurotrophic Signaling SULF2 Sulfatase 2 55959 Neurotrophic Signaling SV2A Synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 9900 Vesicular Vesicles 2A SV2B Synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 9899 Vesicular Vesicles 2B SV2C Synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 22987 Vesicular Vesicles 2C SYN1 Synapsin I 6853 Vesicular Vesicles SYN2 Synapsin II 6854 Vesicular Vesicles SYN3 Synapsin III 8224 Vesicular Vesicles SYNJ1 Synaptojanin 1 8867 Vesicular Vesicles SYT1 Synaptotagmin 1 6857 Vesicular Vesicles SYT10 Synaptotagmin 10 341359 Vesicular Vesicles SYT11 Synaptotagmin 11 23208 Vesicular Vesicles SYT12 Synaptotagmin 12 91683 Vesicular Vesicles SYT13 Synaptotagmin 13 57586 Vesicular Vesicles SYT14 Synaptotagmin 14 255928 Vesicular Vesicles SYT14P1 Synaptotagmin 14 401135 Vesicular Vesicles pseudogene 1 SYT15 Synaptotagmin 15 83849 Vesicular Vesicles SYT16 Synaptotagmin 16 83851 Vesicular Vesicles SYT17 Synaptotagmin 17 51760 Vesicular Vesicles SYT2 Synaptotagmin 2 127833 Vesicular Vesicles SYT3 Synaptotagmin 3 84258 Vesicular Vesicles SYT4 Synaptotagmin 4 6860 Vesicular Vesicles SYT5 Synaptotagmin 5 6861 Vesicular Vesicles SYT6 Synaptotagmin 6 148281 Vesicular Vesicles SYT7 Synaptotagmin 7 9066 Vesicular Vesicles SYT8 Synaptotagmin 8 90019 Vesicular Vesicles SYT9 Synaptotagmin 9 143425 Vesicular Vesicles SYTL1 Synaptotagmin like 1 84958 Vesicular Vesicles SYTL2 Synaptotagmin like 2 54843 Vesicular Vesicles SYTL3 Synaptotagmin like 3 94120 Vesicular Vesicles SYTL4 Synaptotagmin like 4 94121 Vesicular Vesicles SYTL5 Synaptotagmin like 5 94122 Vesicular Vesicles TAAR5 Trace amine associated 9038 Neurotransmitter Receptor receptor 5 TAC1 Tachykinin precursor 1 6863 Neuropeptide Ligand TAC3 Tachykinin 3 6866 Neuropeptide Ligand TAC4 Tachykinin 4 (hemokinin) 255061 Neuropeptide Ligand TACR1 Tachykinin receptor 1 6869 Neuropeptide Receptor TACR2 Tachykinin receptor 2 6865 Neuropeptide Receptor TACR3 Tachykinin receptor 3 6870 Neuropeptide Receptor TBXA2R Thromboxane A2 receptor 6915 Neuropeptide Receptor TCIRG1 T-cell immune regulator 1, 10312 Channel or Transporter atpase H+ transporting V0 transporter subunit a3 TENM1 Teneurin transmembrane 10178 Other Miscelaneous protein 1 TGM2 Transglutaminase 2 7052 Other Miscelaneous TH Tyrosine hydroxylase 7054 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis TMEM158 Transmembrane protein 158 25907 Neurotrophic Receptor (gene/pseudogene) TMOD2 Tropomodulin 2 29767 Vesicular Vesicles TNF Tumor necrosis factor 7124 Neurotrophic Ligand TNR Tenascin R 7143 Other Miscelaneous TP73 Tumor protein p73 7161 Other Miscelaneous TPCN1 Two pore segment channel 1 53373 Channel or Channel transporter TPCN2 Two pore segment channel 2 219931 Channel or Channel transporter TPH1 Tryptophan hydroxylase 1 7166 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis TPH2 Tryptophan hydroxylase 2 121278 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis TPM3 Tropomyosin 3 7170 Neurotrophic Receptor TPR Translocated promoter region, 7175 Other Miscelaneous nuclear basket protein TRH Thyrotropin releasing 7200 Neuropeptide Ligand hormone TRHDE Thyrotropin releasing 29953 Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis hormone degrading enzyme TRHR Thyrotropin releasing 7201 Neuropeptide Receptor hormone receptor TRPA1 Transient receptor potential 8989 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily A transporter member 1 TRPC1 Transient receptor potential 7220 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily C transporter member 1 TRPC2 Transient receptor potential 7221 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily C transporter member 2, pseudogene TRPC3 Transient receptor potential 7222 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily C transporter member 3 TRPC4 Transient receptor potential 7223 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily C transporter member 4 TRPC5 Transient receptor potential 7224 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily C transporter member 5 TRPC6 Transient receptor potential 7225 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily C transporter member 6 TRPC7 Transient receptor potential 57113 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily C transporter member 7 TRPM1 Transient receptor potential 4308 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily M transporter member 1 TRPM2 Transient receptor potential 7226 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily M transporter member 2 TRPM3 Transient receptor potential 80036 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily M transporter member 3 TRPM4 Transient receptor potential 54795 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily M transporter member 4 TRPM5 Transient receptor potential 29850 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily M transporter member 5 TRPM6 Transient receptor potential 140803 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily M transporter member 6 TRPM7 Transient receptor potential 54822 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily M transporter member 7 TRPM8 Transient receptor potential 79054 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily M transporter member 8 TRPV1 Transient receptor potential 7442 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily V transporter member 1 TRPV2 Transient receptor potential 51393 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily V transporter member 2 TRPV3 Transient receptor potential 162514 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily V transporter member 3 TRPV4 Transient receptor potential 59341 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily V transporter member 4 TRPV5 Transient receptor potential 56302 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily V transporter member 5 TRPV6 Transient receptor potential 55503 Channel or Channel cation channel subfamily V transporter member 6 TSHR Thyroid stimulating hormone 7253 Neuropeptide Receptor receptor TSPOAP1 TSPO associated protein 1 9256 Vesicular Vesicles UBL5 Ubiquitin like 5 59286 Other Miscelaneous UCN Urocortin 7349 Neuropeptide Ligand UCN2 Urocortin 2 90226 Neuropeptide Ligand UCN3 Urocortin 3 114131 Neuropeptide Ligand UCP1 Uncoupling protein 1 7350 Channel or Transporter transporter UCP2 Uncoupling protein 2 7351 Channel or Transporter transporter UCP3 Uncoupling protein 3 7352 Channel or Transporter transporter UNC119 Unc-119 lipid binding 9094 Vesicular Vesicles chaperone UNC13A Unc-13 homolog A 23025 Vesicular Vesicles UNC13B Unc-13 homolog B 10497 Vesicular Vesicles USP46 Ubiquitin specific peptidase 46 64854 Other Miscelaneous UTS2 Urotensin 2 10911 Neuropeptide Ligand UTS2B Urotensin 2B 257313 Neuropeptide Ligand UTS2R Urotensin 2 receptor 2837 Neuropeptide Receptor VAMP1 Vesicle associated membrane 6843 Vesicular Vesicles protein 1 VAMP2 Vesicle associated membrane 6844 Vesicular Vesicles protein 2 VAMP3 Vesicle associated membrane 9341 Vesicular Vesicles protein 3 VAMP8 Vesicle associated membrane 8673 Vesicular Vesicles protein 8 VDAC1 Voltage dependent anion 7416 Channel or Channel channel 1 transporter VEGFA Vascular endothelial growth 7422 Neurotrophic Ligand factor A VGF VGF nerve growth factor 7425 Neurotrophic Ligand inducible VIP Vasoactive intestinal peptide 7432 Neuropeptide Ligand VIPR1 Vasoactive intestinal peptide 7433 Neuropeptide Receptor receptor 1 VIPR2 Vasoactive intestinal peptide 7434 Neuropeptide Receptor receptor 2 XCR1 X-C motif chemokine receptor 2829 Neurotrophic Receptor 1 ZACN Zinc activated ion channel 353174 Channel or Channel transporter ZN274 Neurotrophin receptor- 10782 Neurotrophic Signaling interacting factor homolog

TABLE 8 ION CHANNEL AND TRANSPORTER GENES Ion Approved Entrez Gene type/ channel Symbol Approved name Gene ID family Category type ASIC1 Acid sensing ion channel 41 Channel or Channel Lgic subunit 1 transporter ASIC2 Acid sensing ion channel 40 Channel or Channel Lgic subunit 2 transporter ASIC3 Acid sensing ion channel 9311 Channel or Channel Lgic subunit 3 transporter GABRA1 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2554 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor alpha1 subunit GABRA2 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2555 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor alpha2 subunit GABRA3 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2556 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor alpha3 subunit GABRA4 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2557 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor alpha4 subunit GABRA5 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2558 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor alpha5 subunit GABRA6 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2559 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor alpha6 subunit GABRB1 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2560 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor beta1 subunit GABRB2 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2561 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor beta2 subunit GABRB3 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2562 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor beta3 subunit GABRD Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2563 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor delta subunit GABRE Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2564 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor epsilon subunit GABRG1 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2565 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor gamma1 subunit GABRG2 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2566 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor gamma2 subunit GABRG3 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2567 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor gamma3 subunit GABRP Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2568 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor pi subunit GABRQ Gamma-aminobutyric acid 55879 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor theta subunit GABRR1 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2569 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor rho1 subunit GABRR2 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 2570 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor rho2 subunit GABRR3 Gamma-aminobutyric acid 200959 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic type A receptor rho3 subunit (gene/pseudogene) GLRA1 Glycine receptor alpha 1 2741 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic GLRA2 Glycine receptor alpha 2 2742 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic GLRA3 Glycine receptor alpha 3 8001 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic GLRA4 Glycine receptor alpha 4 441509 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic GLRB Glycine receptor beta 2743 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic GRIA1 Glutamate ionotropic 2890 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor AMPA type subunit 1 GRIA2 Glutamate ionotropic 2891 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor AMPA type subunit 2 GRIA3 Glutamate ionotropic 2892 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor AMPA type subunit 3 GRIA4 Glutamate ionotropic 2893 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor AMPA type subunit 4 GRID1 Glutamate ionotropic 2894 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor delta type subunit 1 GRID2 Glutamate ionotropic 2895 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor delta type subunit 2 GRIK1 Glutamate ionotropic 2897 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor kainate type subunit 1 GRIK2 Glutamate ionotropic 2898 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor kainate type subunit 2 GRIK3 Glutamate ionotropic 2899 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor kainate type subunit 3 GRIK4 Glutamate ionotropic 2900 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor kainate type subunit 4 GRIK5 Glutamate ionotropic 2901 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor kainate type subunit 5 GRIN1 Glutamate ionotropic 2902 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor NMDA type subunit 1 GRIN2A Glutamate ionotropic 2903 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor NMDA type subunit 2A GRIN2B Glutamate ionotropic 2904 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor NMDA type subunit 2B GRIN2C Glutamate ionotropic 2905 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor NMDA type subunit 2C GRIN2D Glutamate ionotropic 2906 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor NMDA type subunit 2D GRIN3A Glutamate ionotropic 116443 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor NMDA type subunit 3A GRIN3B Glutamate ionotropic 116444 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor NMDA type subunit 3B HTR3A 5-hydroxytryptamine 3359 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor 3A HTR3B 5-hydroxytryptamine 9177 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor 3B HTR3C 5-hydroxytryptamine 170572 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor 3C HTR3D 5-hydroxytryptamine 200909 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor 3D HTR3E 5-hydroxytryptamine 285242 Neurotransmitter Receptor Lgic receptor 3E ITPR1 Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 3708 Neurotransmitter Signaling Lgic receptor type 1 ITPR2 Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 3709 Neurotransmitter Signaling Lgic receptor type 2 ITPR3 Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 3710 Neurotransmitter Signaling Lgic receptor type 3 SCNN1A Sodium channel epithelial 1 6337 Channel or Channel Lgic alpha subunit transporter SCNN1B Sodium channel epithelial 1 6338 Channel or Channel Lgic beta subunit transporter SCNN1D Sodium channel epithelial 1 6339 Channel or Channel Lgic delta subunit transporter SCNN1G Sodium channel epithelial 1 6340 Channel or Channel Lgic gamma subunit transporter ZACN Zinc activated ion channel 353174 Channel or Channel Lgic transporter CLCN1 Chloride voltage-gated 1180 Channel or Channel Other_ic channel 1 transporter CLCN2 Chloride voltage-gated 1181 Channel or Channel Other_ic channel 2 transporter CLCN3 Chloride voltage-gated 1182 Channel or Channel Other_ic channel 3 transporter CLCN4 Chloride voltage-gated 1183 Channel or Channel Other_ic channel 4 transporter CLCN5 Chloride voltage-gated 1184 Channel or Channel Other_ic channel 5 transporter CLCN6 Chloride voltage-gated 1185 Channel or Channel Other_ic channel 6 transporter CLCN7 Chloride voltage-gated 1186 Channel or Channel Other_ic channel 7 transporter CLCNKA Chloride voltage-gated 1187 Channel or Channel Other_ic channel Ka transporter CLCNKB Chloride voltage-gated 1188 Channel or Channel Other_ic channel Kb transporter CLIC6 Chloride intracellular 54102 Channel or Channel Other_ic channel 6 transporter GJA1 Gap junction protein alpha 1 2697 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJA10 Gap junction protein alpha 84694 Channel or Channel Other_ic 10 transporter GJA3 Gap junction protein alpha 3 2700 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJA4 Gap junction protein alpha 4 2701 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJA5 Gap junction protein alpha 5 2702 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJA8 Gap junction protein alpha 8 2703 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJA9 Gap junction protein alpha 9 81025 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJB1 Gap junction protein beta 1 2705 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJB2 Gap junction protein beta 2 2706 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJB3 Gap junction protein beta 3 2707 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJB4 Gap junction protein beta 4 127534 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJB5 Gap junction protein beta 5 2709 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJB6 Gap junction protein beta 6 10804 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJB7 Gap junction protein beta 7 375519 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJC1 Gap junction protein gamma 10052 Channel or Channel Other_ic 1 transporter GJC2 Gap junction protein gamma 57165 Channel or Channel Other_ic 2 transporter GJC3 Gap junction protein gamma 349149 Channel or Channel Other_ic 3 transporter GJD2 Gap junction protein delta 2 57369 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJD3 Gap junction protein delta 3 125111 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJD4 Gap junction protein delta 4 219770 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter GJE1 Gap junction protein epsilon 100126572 Channel or Channel Other_ic 1 transporter KCNMB4 Potassium calcium- 27345 Channel or Channel Other_ic activated channel subfamily transporter M regulatory beta subunit 4 NALCN Sodium leak channel, non- 259232 Channel or Channel Other_ic selective transporter PANX1 Pannexin 1 24145 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter PANX2 Pannexin 2 56666 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter PANX3 Pannexin 3 116337 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter SHROOM1 Shroom family member 1 134549 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter SHROOM2 Shroom family member 2 357 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter SHROOM3 Shroom family member 3 57619 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter SHROOM4 Shroom family member 4 57477 Channel or Channel Other_ic transporter ATP10A Atpase phospholipid 57194 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting 10A (putative) transporter ATP10B Atpase phospholipid 23120 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting 10B (putative) transporter ATP10D Atpase phospholipid 57205 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting 10D (putative) transporter ATP11A Atpase phospholipid 23250 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting 11A transporter ATP11B Atpase phospholipid 23200 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting 11B (putative) transporter ATP11C Atpase phospholipid 286410 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting 11C transporter ATP12A Atpase H+/K+ transporting 479 Channel or Transporter Transporter non-gastric alpha2 subunit transporter ATP1A1 Atpase Na+/K+ transporting 476 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit alpha 1 transporter ATP1A2 Atpase Na+/K+ transporting 477 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit alpha 2 transporter ATP1A3 Atpase Na+/K+ transporting 478 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit alpha 3 transporter ATP1A4 Atpase Na+/K+ transporting 480 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit alpha 4 transporter ATP1B1 Atpase Na+/K+ transporting 481 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit beta 1 transporter ATP1B2 Atpase Na+/K+ transporting 482 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit beta 2 transporter ATP1B3 Atpase Na+/K+ transporting 483 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit beta 3 transporter ATP2A1 Atpase 487 Channel or Transporter Transporter sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic transporter reticulum Ca2+ transporting 1 ATP2A2 Atpase 488 Channel or Transporter Transporter sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic transporter reticulum Ca2+ transporting 2 ATP2A3 Atpase 489 Channel or Transporter Transporter sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic transporter reticulum Ca2+ transporting 3 ATP2B1 Atpase plasma membrane 490 Channel or Transporter Transporter Ca2+ transporting 1 transporter ATP2B2 Atpase plasma membrane 491 Channel or Transporter Transporter Ca2+ transporting 2 transporter ATP2B3 Atpase plasma membrane 492 Channel or Transporter Transporter Ca2+ transporting 3 transporter ATP2B4 Atpase plasma membrane 493 Channel or Transporter Transporter Ca2+ transporting 4 transporter ATP2C1 Atpase secretory pathway 27032 Channel or Transporter Transporter Ca2+ transporting 1 transporter ATP2C2 Atpase secretory pathway 9914 Channel or Transporter Transporter Ca2+ transporting 2 transporter ATP4A Atpase H+/K+ transporting 495 Channel or Transporter Transporter alpha subunit transporter ATP4B Atpase H+/K+ transporting 496 Channel or Transporter Transporter beta subunit transporter ATP5A1 ATP synthase, H+ 498 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting, mitochondrial transporter F1 complex, alpha subunit 1, cardiac muscle ATP5B ATP synthase, H+ 506 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting, mitochondrial transporter F1 complex, beta polypeptide ATP5C1 ATP synthase, H+ 509 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting, mitochondrial transporter F1 complex, gamma polypeptide 1 ATP5D ATP synthase, H+ 513 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting, mitochondrial transporter F1 complex, delta subunit ATP5E ATP synthase, H+ 514 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting, mitochondrial transporter F1 complex, epsilon subunit ATP5F1 ATP synthase, H+ 515 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting, mitochondrial transporter Fo complex subunit B1 ATP5H ATP synthase, H+ 10476 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting, mitochondrial transporter Fo complex subunit D ATP5I ATP synthase, H+ 521 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting, mitochondrial transporter Fo complex subunit E ATP5J ATP synthase, H+ 522 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting, mitochondrial transporter Fo complex subunit F6 ATP5J2 ATP synthase, H+ 9551 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting, mitochondrial transporter Fo complex subunit F2 ATP5L2 ATP synthase, H+ 267020 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting, mitochondrial transporter Fo complex subunit G2 ATP6V0A1 Atpase H+ transporting V0 535 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit a1 transporter ATP6V0A2 Atpase H+ transporting V0 23545 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit a2 transporter ATP6V0A4 Atpase H+ transporting V0 50617 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit a4 transporter ATP6V0B Atpase H+ transporting V0 533 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit b transporter ATP6V0C Atpase H+ transporting V0 527 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit c transporter ATP6V0D1 Atpase H+ transporting V0 9114 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit d1 transporter ATP6V0D2 Atpase H+ transporting V0 245972 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit d2 transporter ATP6V0E1 Atpase H+ transporting V0 8992 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit e1 transporter ATP6V0E2 Atpase H+ transporting V0 155066 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit e2 transporter ATP6V1A Atpase H+ transporting V1 523 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit A transporter ATP6V1B1 Atpase H+ transporting V1 525 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit B1 transporter ATP6V1B2 Atpase H+ transporting V1 526 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit B2 transporter ATP6V1C1 Atpase H+ transporting V1 528 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit C1 transporter ATP6V1C2 Atpase H+ transporting V1 245973 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit C2 transporter ATP6V1D Atpase H+ transporting V1 51382 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit D transporter ATP6V1E1 Atpase H+ transporting V1 529 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit E1 transporter ATP6V1E2 Atpase H+ transporting V1 90423 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit E2 transporter ATP6V1F Atpase H+ transporting V1 9296 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit F transporter ATP6V1G1 Atpase H+ transporting V1 9550 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit G1 transporter ATP6V1G2 Atpase H+ transporting V1 534 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit G2 transporter ATP6V1G3 Atpase H+ transporting V1 127124 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit G3 transporter ATP6V1H Atpase H+ transporting V1 51606 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit H transporter ATP7A Atpase copper transporting 538 Channel or Transporter Transporter alpha transporter ATP7B Atpase copper transporting 540 Channel or Transporter Transporter beta transporter ATP8A1 Atpase phospholipid 10396 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting 8A1 transporter ATP8A2 Atpase phospholipid 51761 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting 8A2 transporter ATP8B1 Atpase phospholipid 5205 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting 8B1 transporter ATP8B2 Atpase phospholipid 57198 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting 8B2 transporter ATP8B3 Atpase phospholipid 148229 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting 8B3 transporter ATP8B4 Atpase phospholipid 79895 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting 8B4 (putative) transporter ATP9A Atpase phospholipid 10079 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting 9A (putative) transporter ATP9B Atpase phospholipid 374868 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporting 9B (putative) transporter DIRC2 Disrupted in renal 84925 Channel or Transporter Transporter carcinoma 2 transporter FLVCR1 Feline leukemia virus 28982 Channel or Transporter Transporter subgroup C cellular receptor transporter 1 FLVCR2 Feline leukemia virus 55640 Channel or Transporter Transporter subgroup C cellular receptor transporter family member 2 FXYD2 FXYD domain containing 486 Channel or Transporter Transporter ion transport regulator 2 transporter HTL High L-leucine transport 3343 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter MFSD7 Major facilitator superfamily 84179 Channel or Transporter Transporter domain containing 7 transporter MT-ATP6 Mitochondrially encoded 4508 Channel or Transporter Transporter ATP synthase 6 transporter MT-ATP8 Mitochondrially encoded 4509 Channel or Transporter Transporter ATP synthase 8 transporter MTCH1 Mitochondrial carrier 1 23787 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter MTCH2 Mitochondrial carrier 2 23788 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter NPC1L1 NPC1 like intracellular 29881 Channel or Transporter Transporter cholesterol transporter 1 transporter RHAG Rh-associated glycoprotein 6005 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter RHBG Rh family B glycoprotein 57127 Channel or Transporter Transporter (gene/pseudogene) transporter RHCG Rh family C glycoprotein 51458 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter SLC10A1 Solute carrier family 10 6554 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC10A2 Solute carrier family 10 6555 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC10A3 Solute carrier family 10 8273 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC10A4 Solute carrier family 10 201780 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC10A5 Solute carrier family 10 347051 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC10A6 Solute carrier family 10 345274 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC10A7 Solute carrier family 10 84068 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC11A1 Solute carrier family 11 6556 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC11A2 Solute carrier family 11 4891 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC12A1 Solute carrier family 12 6557 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC12A2 Solute carrier family 12 6558 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC12A3 Solute carrier family 12 6559 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC12A4 Solute carrier family 12 6560 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC12A5 Solute carrier family 12 57468 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC12A6 Solute carrier family 12 9990 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC12A7 Solute carrier family 12 10723 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC12A8 Solute carrier family 12 84561 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 8 transporter SLC12A9 Solute carrier family 12 56996 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 9 transporter SLC13A1 Solute carrier family 13 6561 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC13A2 Solute carrier family 13 9058 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC13A3 Solute carrier family 13 64849 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC13A4 Solute carrier family 13 26266 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC13A5 Solute carrier family 13 284111 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC14A1 Solute carrier family 14 6563 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 (Kidd blood transporter group) SLC14A2 Solute carrier family 14 8170 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC15A1 Solute carrier family 15 6564 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC15A2 Solute carrier family 15 6565 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC15A3 Solute carrier family 15 51296 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC15A4 Solute carrier family 15 121260 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC16A1 Solute carrier family 16 6566 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC16A10 Solute carrier family 16 117247 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 10 transporter SLC16A11 Solute carrier family 16 162515 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 11 transporter SLC16A12 Solute carrier family 16 387700 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 12 transporter SLC16A13 Solute carrier family 16 201232 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 13 transporter SLC16A14 Solute carrier family 16 151473 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 14 transporter SLC16A2 Solute carrier family 16 6567 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC16A3 Solute carrier family 16 9123 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC16A4 Solute carrier family 16 9122 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC16A5 Solute carrier family 16 9121 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC16A6 Solute carrier family 16 9120 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC16A7 Solute carrier family 16 9194 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC16A8 Solute carrier family 16 23539 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 8 transporter SLC16A9 Solute carrier family 16 220963 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 9 transporter SLC17A1 Solute carrier family 17 6568 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC17A2 Solute carrier family 17 10246 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC17A3 Solute carrier family 17 10786 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC17A4 Solute carrier family 17 10050 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC17A5 Solute carrier family 17 26503 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC17A6 Solute carrier family 17 57084 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC17A7 Solute carrier family 17 57030 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC17A8 Solute carrier family 17 246213 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 8 transporter SLC17A9 Solute carrier family 17 63910 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 9 transporter SLC18A1 Solute carrier family 18 6570 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A1 transporter SLC18A2 Solute carrier family 18 6571 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A2 transporter SLC18A3 Solute carrier family 18 6572 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A3 transporter SLC18B1 Solute carrier family 18 116843 Channel or Transporter Transporter member B1 transporter SLC19A1 Solute carrier family 19 6573 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC19A2 Solute carrier family 19 10560 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC19A3 Solute carrier family 19 80704 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC1A1 Solute carrier family 1 6505 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC1A2 Solute carrier family 1 6506 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC1A3 Solute carrier family 1 6507 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC1A6 Solute carrier family 1 6511 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC1A7 Solute carrier family 1 6512 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC20A1 Solute carrier family 20 6574 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC20A2 Solute carrier family 20 6575 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC22A1 Solute carrier family 22 6580 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC22A10 Solute carrier family 22 387775 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 10 transporter SLC22A11 Solute carrier family 22 55867 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 11 transporter SLC22A12 Solute carrier family 22 116085 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 12 transporter SLC22A13 Solute carrier family 22 9390 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 13 transporter SLC22A14 Solute carrier family 22 9389 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 14 transporter SLC22A15 Solute carrier family 22 55356 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 15 transporter SLC22A16 Solute carrier family 22 85413 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 16 transporter SLC22A17 Solute carrier family 22 51310 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 17 transporter SLC22A18 Solute carrier family 22 5002 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 18 transporter SLC22A2 Solute carrier family 22 6582 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC22A20 Solute carrier family 22 440044 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 20 transporter SLC22A23 Solute carrier family 22 63027 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 23 transporter SLC22A24 Solute carrier family 22 283238 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 24 transporter SLC22A25 Solute carrier family 22 387601 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 25 transporter SLC22A3 Solute carrier family 22 6581 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC22A31 Solute carrier family 22 146429 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 31 transporter SLC22A4 Solute carrier family 22 6583 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC22A5 Solute carrier family 22 6584 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC22A6 Solute carrier family 22 9356 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC22A7 Solute carrier family 22 10864 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC22A8 Solute carrier family 22 9376 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 8 transporter SLC22A9 Solute carrier family 22 114571 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 9 transporter SLC23A1 Solute carrier family 23 9963 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC23A2 Solute carrier family 23 9962 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC23A3 Solute carrier family 23 151295 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC23A4P Solute carrier family 23 641842 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4, pseudogene transporter SLC24A1 Solute carrier family 24 9187 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC24A2 Solute carrier family 24 25769 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC24A3 Solute carrier family 24 57419 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC24A4 Solute carrier family 24 123041 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC24A5 Solute carrier family 24 283652 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC25A1 Solute carrier family 25 6576 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC25A10 Solute carrier family 25 1468 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 10 transporter SLC25A11 Solute carrier family 25 8402 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 11 transporter SLC25A12 Solute carrier family 25 8604 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 12 transporter SLC25A13 Solute carrier family 25 10165 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 13 transporter SLC25A14 Solute carrier family 25 9016 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 14 transporter SLC25A15 Solute carrier family 25 10166 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 15 transporter SLC25A16 Solute carrier family 25 8034 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 16 transporter SLC25A17 Solute carrier family 25 10478 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 17 transporter SLC25A18 Solute carrier family 25 83733 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 18 transporter SLC25A19 Solute carrier family 25 60386 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 19 transporter SLC25A2 Solute carrier family 25 83884 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC25A20 Solute carrier family 25 788 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 20 transporter SLC25A21 Solute carrier family 25 89874 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 21 transporter SLC25A22 Solute carrier family 25 79751 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 22 transporter SLC25A23 Solute carrier family 25 79085 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 23 transporter SLC25A24 Solute carrier family 25 29957 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 24 transporter SLC25A25 Solute carrier family 25 114789 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 25 transporter SLC25A26 Solute carrier family 25 115286 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 26 transporter SLC25A27 Solute carrier family 25 9481 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 27 transporter SLC25A28 Solute carrier family 25 81894 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 28 transporter SLC25A29 Solute carrier family 25 123096 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 29 transporter SLC25A3 Solute carrier family 25 5250 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC25A30 Solute carrier family 25 253512 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 30 transporter SLC25A31 Solute carrier family 25 83447 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 31 transporter SLC25A32 Solute carrier family 25 81034 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 32 transporter SLC25A33 Solute carrier family 25 84275 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 33 transporter SLC25A34 Solute carrier family 25 284723 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 34 transporter SLC25A35 Solute carrier family 25 399512 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 35 transporter SLC25A36 Solute carrier family 25 55186 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 36 transporter SLC25A37 Solute carrier family 25 51312 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 37 transporter SLC25A38 Solute carrier family 25 54977 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 38 transporter SLC25A39 Solute carrier family 25 51629 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 39 transporter SLC25A4 Solute carrier family 25 291 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC25A40 Solute carrier family 25 55972 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 40 transporter SLC25A41 Solute carrier family 25 284427 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 41 transporter SLC25A42 Solute carrier family 25 284439 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 42 transporter SLC25A43 Solute carrier family 25 203427 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 43 transporter SLC25A44 Solute carrier family 25 9673 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 44 transporter SLC25A45 Solute carrier family 25 283130 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 45 transporter SLC25A46 Solute carrier family 25 91137 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 46 transporter SLC25A47 Solute carrier family 25 283600 Channel or Transporter T ransporter member 47 transporter SLC25A48 Solute carrier family 25 153328 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 48 transporter SLC25A5 Solute carrier family 25 292 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC25A51 Solute carrier family 25 92014 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 51 transporter SLC25A52 Solute carrier family 25 147407 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 52 transporter SLC25A53 Solute carrier family 25 401612 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 53 transporter SLC25A6 Solute carrier family 25 293 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC26A1 Solute carrier family 26 10861 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC26A10 Solute carrier family 26 65012 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 10 transporter SLC26A11 Solute carrier family 26 284129 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 11 transporter SLC26A2 Solute carrier family 26 1836 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC26A3 Solute carrier family 26 1811 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC26A4 Solute carrier family 26 5172 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC26A5 Solute carrier family 26 375611 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC26A6 Solute carrier family 26 65010 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC26A7 Solute carrier family 26 115111 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC26A8 Solute carrier family 26 116369 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 8 transporter SLC26A9 Solute carrier family 26 115019 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 9 transporter SLC27A1 Solute carrier family 27 376497 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC27A2 Solute carrier family 27 11001 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC27A3 Solute carrier family 27 11000 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC27A4 Solute carrier family 27 10999 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC27A5 Solute carrier family 27 10998 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC27A6 Solute carrier family 27 28965 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC28A1 Solute carrier family 28 9154 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC28A2 Solute carrier family 28 9153 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC28A3 Solute carrier family 28 64078 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC29A1 Solute carrier family 29 2030 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 (Augustine blood transporter group) SLC29A2 Solute carrier family 29 3177 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC29A3 Solute carrier family 29 55315 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC29A4 Solute carrier family 29 222962 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC2A1 Solute carrier family 2 6513 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC2A10 Solute carrier family 2 81031 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 10 transporter SLC2A11 Solute carrier family 2 66035 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 11 transporter SLC2A12 Solute carrier family 2 154091 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 12 transporter SLC2A13 Solute carrier family 2 114134 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 13 transporter SLC2A14 Solute carrier family 2 144195 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 14 transporter SLC2A2 Solute carrier family 2 6514 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC2A3 Solute carrier family 2 6515 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC2A4 Solute carrier family 2 6517 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC2A5 Solute carrier family 2 6518 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC2A6 Solute carrier family 2 11182 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC2A7 Solute carrier family 2 155184 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC2A8 Solute carrier family 2 29988 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 8 transporter SLC2A9 Solute carrier family 2 56606 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 9 transporter SLC30A1 Solute carrier family 30 7779 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC30A10 Solute carrier family 30 55532 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 10 transporter SLC30A2 Solute carrier family 30 7780 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC30A3 Solute carrier family 30 7781 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC30A4 Solute carrier family 30 7782 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC30A5 Solute carrier family 30 64924 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC30A6 Solute carrier family 30 55676 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC30A7 Solute carrier family 30 148867 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC30A8 Solute carrier family 30 169026 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 8 transporter SLC30A9 Solute carrier family 30 10463 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 9 transporter SLC31A1 Solute carrier family 31 1317 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC31A2 Solute carrier family 31 1318 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC32A1 Solute carrier family 32 140679 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC33A1 Solute carrier family 33 9197 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC34A1 Solute carrier family 34 6569 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC34A2 Solute carrier family 34 10568 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC34A3 Solute carrier family 34 142680 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC35A1 Solute carrier family 35 10559 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A1 transporter SLC35A2 Solute carrier family 35 7355 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A2 transporter SLC35A3 Solute carrier family 35 23443 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A3 transporter SLC35A4 Solute carrier family 35 113829 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A4 transporter SLC35A5 Solute carrier family 35 55032 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A5 transporter SLC35B1 Solute carrier family 35 10237 Channel or Transporter Transporter member B1 transporter SLC35B2 Solute carrier family 35 347734 Channel or Transporter Transporter member B2 transporter SLC35B3 Solute carrier family 35 51000 Channel or Transporter Transporter member B3 transporter SLC35B4 Solute carrier family 35 84912 Channel or Transporter Transporter member B4 transporter SLC35C1 Solute carrier family 35 55343 Channel or Transporter Transporter member C1 transporter SLC35C2 Solute carrier family 35 51006 Channel or Transporter Transporter member C2 transporter SLC35D1 Solute carrier family 35 23169 Channel or Transporter Transporter member D1 transporter SLC35D2 Solute carrier family 35 11046 Channel or Transporter Transporter member D2 transporter SLC35D3 Solute carrier family 35 340146 Channel or Transporter Transporter member D3 transporter SLC35E1 Solute carrier family 35 79939 Channel or Transporter Transporter member E1 transporter SLC35E2 Solute carrier family 35 9906 Channel or Transporter Transporter member E2 transporter SLC35E2B Solute carrier family 35 728661 Channel or Transporter Transporter member E2B transporter SLC35E3 Solute carrier family 35 55508 Channel or Transporter Transporter member E3 transporter SLC35E4 Solute carrier family 35 339665 Channel or Transporter Transporter member E4 transporter SLC35F1 Solute carrier family 35 222553 Channel or Transporter Transporter member F1 transporter SLC35F2 Solute carrier family 35 54733 Channel or Transporter Transporter member F2 transporter SLC35F3 Solute carrier family 35 148641 Channel or Transporter Transporter member F3 transporter SLC35F4 Solute carrier family 35 341880 Channel or Transporter Transporter member F4 transporter SLC35F5 Solute carrier family 35 80255 Channel or Transporter Transporter member F5 transporter SLC35F6 Solute carrier family 35 54978 Channel or Transporter Transporter member F6 transporter SLC35G1 Solute carrier family 35 159371 Channel or Transporter Transporter member G1 transporter SLC35G2 Solute carrier family 35 80723 Channel or Transporter Transporter member G2 transporter SLC35G3 Solute carrier family 35 146861 Channel or Transporter Transporter member G3 transporter SLC35G4 Solute carrier family 35 646000 Channel or Transporter Transporter member G4 transporter SLC35G5 Solute carrier family 35 83650 Channel or Transporter Transporter member G5 transporter SLC35G6 Solute carrier family 35 643664 Channel or Transporter Transporter member G6 transporter SLC36A1 Solute carrier family 36 206358 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC36A2 Solute carrier family 36 153201 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC36A3 Solute carrier family 36 285641 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC36A4 Solute carrier family 36 120103 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC37A1 Solute carrier family 37 54020 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC37A2 Solute carrier family 37 219855 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC37A3 Solute carrier family 37 84255 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC37A4 Solute carrier family 37 2542 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC38A1 Solute carrier family 38 81539 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC38A10 Solute carrier family 38 124565 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 10 transporter SLC38A11 Solute carrier family 38 151258 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 11 transporter SLC38A2 Solute carrier family 38 54407 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC38A3 Solute carrier family 38 10991 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC38A4 Solute carrier family 38 55089 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC38A5 Solute carrier family 38 92745 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC38A6 Solute carrier family 38 145389 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC38A7 Solute carrier family 38 55238 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC38A8 Solute carrier family 38 146167 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 8 transporter SLC38A9 Solute carrier family 38 153129 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 9 transporter SLC39A1 Solute carrier family 39 27173 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC39A10 Solute carrier family 39 57181 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 10 transporter SLC39A11 Solute carrier family 39 201266 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 11 transporter SLC39A12 Solute carrier family 39 221074 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 12 transporter SLC39A13 Solute carrier family 39 91252 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 13 transporter SLC39A14 Solute carrier family 39 23516 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 14 transporter SLC39A2 Solute carrier family 39 29986 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC39A3 Solute carrier family 39 29985 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC39A4 Solute carrier family 39 55630 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC39A5 Solute carrier family 39 283375 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC39A6 Solute carrier family 39 25800 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC39A7 Solute carrier family 39 7922 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC39A8 Solute carrier family 39 64116 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 8 transporter SLC39A9 Solute carrier family 39 55334 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 9 transporter SLC3A1 Solute carrier family 3 6519 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC3A2 Solute carrier family 3 6520 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC40A1 Solute carrier family 40 30061 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC41A1 Solute carrier family 41 254428 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC41A2 Solute carrier family 41 84102 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC41A3 Solute carrier family 41 54946 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC43A1 Solute carrier family 43 8501 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC43A2 Solute carrier family 43 124935 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC43A3 Solute carrier family 43 29015 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC44A1 Solute carrier family 44 23446 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC44A2 Solute carrier family 44 57153 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC44A3 Solute carrier family 44 126969 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC44A4 Solute carrier family 44 80736 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC44A5 Solute carrier family 44 204962 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC45A1 Solute carrier family 45 50651 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC45A2 Solute carrier family 45 51151 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC45A3 Solute carrier family 45 85414 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC45A4 Solute carrier family 45 57210 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC46A1 Solute carrier family 46 113235 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC46A2 Solute carrier family 46 57864 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC46A3 Solute carrier family 46 283537 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC47A1 Solute carrier family 47 55244 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC47A2 Solute carrier family 47 146802 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC48A1 Solute carrier family 48 55652 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC4A1 Solute carrier family 4 6521 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC4A10 Solute carrier family 4 57282 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 10 transporter SLC4A11 Solute carrier family 4 83959 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 11 transporter SLC4A2 Solute carrier family 4 6522 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC4A3 Solute carrier family 4 6508 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC4A4 Solute carrier family 4 8671 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC4A5 Solute carrier family 4 57835 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC4A7 Solute carrier family 4 9497 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC4A8 Solute carrier family 4 9498 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 8 transporter SLC4A9 Solute carrier family 4 83697 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 9 transporter SLC50A1 Solute carrier family 50 55974 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC51A Solute carrier family 51 200931 Channel or Transporter Transporter alpha subunit transporter SLC51B Solute carrier family 51 beta 123264 Channel or Transporter Transporter subunit transporter SLC52A1 Solute carrier family 52 55065 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC52A2 Solute carrier family 52 79581 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC52A3 Solute carrier family 52 113278 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC5A1 Solute carrier family 5 6523 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC5A10 Solute carrier family 5 125206 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 10 transporter SLC5A11 Solute carrier family 5 115584 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 11 transporter SLC5A12 Solute carrier family 5 159963 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 12 transporter SLC5A2 Solute carrier family 5 6524 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC5A3 Solute carrier family 5 6526 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC5A4 Solute carrier family 5 6527 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC5A5 Solute carrier family 5 6528 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC5A6 Solute carrier family 5 8884 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC5A7 Solute carrier family 5 60482 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC5A8 Solute carrier family 5 160728 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 8 transporter SLC5A9 Solute carrier family 5 200010 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 9 transporter SLC6A1 Solute carrier family 6 6529 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC6A10P Solute carrier family 6 386757 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 10, pseudogene transporter SLC6A10PB Solute carrier family 6 653562 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 8 pseudogene transporter SLC6A11 Solute carrier family 6 6538 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 11 transporter SLC6A12 Solute carrier family 6 6539 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 12 transporter SLC6A13 Solute carrier family 6 6540 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 13 transporter SLC6A14 Solute carrier family 6 11254 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 14 transporter SLC6A15 Solute carrier family 6 55117 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 15 transporter SLC6A16 Solute carrier family 6 28968 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 16 transporter SLC6A17 Solute carrier family 6 388662 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 17 transporter SLC6A18 Solute carrier family 6 348932 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 18 transporter SLC6A19 Solute carrier family 6 340024 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 19 transporter SLC6A2 Solute carrier family 6 6530 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC6A20 Solute carrier family 6 54716 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 20 transporter SLC6A21P Solute carrier family 6 652969 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 21, pseudogene transporter SLC6A3 Solute carrier family 6 6531 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC6A4 Solute carrier family 6 6532 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC6A5 Solute carrier family 6 9152 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC6A6 Solute carrier family 6 6533 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC6A7 Solute carrier family 6 6534 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC6A8 Solute carrier family 6 6535 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 8 transporter SLC6A9 Solute carrier family 6 6536 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 9 transporter SLC7A1 Solute carrier family 7 6541 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 1 transporter SLC7A10 Solute carrier family 7 56301 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 10 transporter SLC7A11 Solute carrier family 7 23657 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 11 transporter SLC7A13 Solute carrier family 7 157724 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 13 transporter SLC7A14 Solute carrier family 7 57709 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 14 transporter SLC7A2 Solute carrier family 7 6542 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 2 transporter SLC7A3 Solute carrier family 7 84889 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 3 transporter SLC7A4 Solute carrier family 7 6545 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 4 transporter SLC7A5 Solute carrier family 7 8140 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 5 transporter SLC7A6 Solute carrier family 7 9057 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 6 transporter SLC7A7 Solute carrier family 7 9056 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 7 transporter SLC7A8 Solute carrier family 7 23428 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 8 transporter SLC7A9 Solute carrier family 7 11136 Channel or Transporter Transporter member 9 transporter SLC8A1 Solute carrier family 8 6546 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A1 transporter SLC8A2 Solute carrier family 8 6543 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A2 transporter SLC8A3 Solute carrier family 8 6547 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A3 transporter SLC8B1 Solute carrier family 8 80024 Channel or Transporter Transporter member B1 transporter SLC9A1 Solute carrier family 9 6548 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A1 transporter SLC9A2 Solute carrier family 9 6549 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A2 transporter SLC9A3 Solute carrier family 9 6550 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A3 transporter SLC9A4 Solute carrier family 9 389015 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A4 transporter SLC9A5 Solute carrier family 9 6553 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A5 transporter SLC9A6 Solute carrier family 9 10479 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A6 transporter SLC9A7 Solute carrier family 9 84679 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A7 transporter SLC9A8 Solute carrier family 9 23315 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A8 transporter SLC9A9 Solute carrier family 9 285195 Channel or Transporter Transporter member A9 transporter SLC9B1 Solute carrier family 9 150159 Channel or Transporter Transporter member B1 transporter SLC9B2 Solute carrier family 9 133308 Channel or Transporter Transporter member B2 transporter SLC9C1 Solute carrier family 9 285335 Channel or Transporter Transporter member C1 transporter SLC9C2 Solute carrier family 9 284525 Channel or Transporter Transporter member C2 (putative) transporter SLCO1A2 Solute carrier organic anion 6579 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter family member transporter 1A2 SLCO1B1 Solute carrier organic anion 10599 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter family member transporter 1B1 SLCO1B3 Solute carrier organic anion 28234 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter family member transporter 1B3 SLCO1C1 Solute carrier organic anion 53919 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter family member transporter 1C1 SLCO2A1 Solute carrier organic anion 6578 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter family member transporter 2A1 SLCO2B1 Solute carrier organic anion 11309 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter family member transporter 2B1 SLCO3A1 Solute carrier organic anion 28232 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter family member transporter 3A1 SLCO4A1 Solute carrier organic anion 28231 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter family member transporter 4A1 SLCO4C1 Solute carrier organic anion 353189 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter family member transporter 4C1 SLCO5A1 Solute carrier organic anion 81796 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter family member transporter 5A1 SLCO6A1 Solute carrier organic anion 133482 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter family member transporter 6A1 TCIRG1 T-cell immune regulator 1, 10312 Channel or Transporter Transporter atpase H+ transporting V0 transporter subunit a3 UCP1 Uncoupling protein 1 7350 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter UCP2 Uncoupling protein 2 7351 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter UCP3 Uncoupling protein 3 7352 Channel or Transporter Transporter transporter CACNA1A Calcium voltage-gated 773 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subunit alpha1 A transporter CACNA1B Calcium voltage-gated 774 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subunit alpha1 B transporter CACNA1C Calcium voltage-gated 775 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subunit alpha1 C transporter CACNA1D Calcium voltage-gated 776 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subunit alpha1 D transporter CACNA1E Calcium voltage-gated 777 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subunit alpha1 E transporter CACNA1F Calcium voltage-gated 778 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subunit alpha1 F transporter CACNA1G Calcium voltage-gated 8913 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subunit alpha1 G transporter CACNA1H Calcium voltage-gated 8912 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subunit alpha1 H transporter CACNA1I Calcium voltage-gated 8911 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subunit alpha1 I transporter CACNA1S Calcium voltage-gated 779 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subunit alpha1 S transporter CACNB1 Calcium voltage-gated 782 Channel or Channel Vgic channel auxiliary subunit transporter beta 1 CACNB2 Calcium voltage-gated 783 Channel or Channel Vgic channel auxiliary subunit transporter beta 2 CACNB4 Calcium voltage-gated 785 Channel or Channel Vgic channel auxiliary subunit transporter beta 4 CATSPER1 Cation channel sperm 117144 Channel or Channel Vgic associated 1 transporter CATSPER2 Cation channel sperm 117155 Channel or Channel Vgic associated 2 transporter CATSPER3 Cation channel sperm 347732 Channel or Channel Vgic associated 3 transporter CATSPER4 Cation channel sperm 378807 Channel or Channel Vgic associated 4 transporter CNGA1 Cyclic nucleotide gated 1259 Channel or Channel Vgic channel alpha 1 transporter CNGA2 Cyclic nucleotide gated 1260 Channel or Channel Vgic channel alpha 2 transporter CNGA3 Cyclic nucleotide gated 1261 Channel or Channel Vgic channel alpha 3 transporter CNGA4 Cyclic nucleotide gated 1262 Channel or Channel Vgic channel alpha 4 transporter CNGB1 Cyclic nucleotide gated 1258 Channel or Channel Vgic channel beta 1 transporter CNGB3 Cyclic nucleotide gated 54714 Channel or Channel Vgic channel beta 3 transporter HCN1 Hyperpolarization activated 348980 Channel or Channel Vgic cyclic nucleotide gated transporter potassium channel 1 HCN2 Hyperpolarization activated 610 Channel or Channel Vgic cyclic nucleotide gated transporter potassium channel 2 HCN3 Hyperpolarization activated 57657 Channel or Channel Vgic cyclic nucleotide gated transporter potassium channel 3 HCN4 Hyperpolarization activated 10021 Channel or Channel Vgic cyclic nucleotide gated transporter potassium channel 4 HVCN1 Hydrogen voltage gated 84329 Channel or Channel Vgic channel 1 transporter KCNA1 Potassium voltage-gated 3736 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily A transporter member 1 KCNA10 Potassium voltage-gated 3744 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily A transporter member 10 KCNA2 Potassium voltage-gated 3737 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily A transporter member 2 KCNA3 Potassium voltage-gated 3738 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily A transporter member 3 KCNA4 Potassium voltage-gated 3739 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily A transporter member 4 KCNA5 Potassium voltage-gated 3741 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily A transporter member 5 KCNA6 Potassium voltage-gated 3742 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily A transporter member 6 KCNA7 Potassium voltage-gated 3743 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily A transporter member 7 KCNAB1 Potassium voltage-gated 7881 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily A transporter member regulatory beta subunit 1 KCNAB2 Potassium voltage-gated 8514 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily A transporter regulatory beta subunit 2 KCNB1 Potassium voltage-gated 3745 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily B transporter member 1 KCNB2 Potassium voltage-gated 9312 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily B transporter member 2 KCNC1 Potassium voltage-gated 3746 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily C transporter member 1 KCNC2 Potassium voltage-gated 3747 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily C transporter member 2 KCNC3 Potassium voltage-gated 3748 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily C transporter member 3 KCNC4 Potassium voltage-gated 3749 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily C transporter member 4 KCND1 Potassium voltage-gated 3750 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily D transporter member 1 KCND2 Potassium voltage-gated 3751 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily D transporter member 2 KCND3 Potassium voltage-gated 3752 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily D transporter member 3 KCNE2 Potassium voltage-gated 9992 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily E transporter regulatory subunit 2 KCNE3 Potassium voltage-gated 10008 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily E transporter regulatory subunit 3 KCNE4 Potassium voltage-gated 23704 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily E transporter regulatory subunit 4 KCNF1 Potassium voltage-gated 3754 Channel or Channel Vgic channel modifier subfamily transporter F member 1 KCNG1 Potassium voltage-gated 3755 Channel or Channel Vgic channel modifier subfamily transporter G member 1 KCNG2 Potassium voltage-gated 26251 Channel or Channel Vgic channel modifier subfamily transporter G member 2 KCNG3 Potassium voltage-gated 170850 Channel or Channel Vgic channel modifier subfamily transporter G member 3 KCNG4 Potassium voltage-gated 93107 Channel or Channel Vgic channel modifier subfamily transporter G member 4 KCNH1 Potassium voltage-gated 3756 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily H transporter member 1 KCNH2 Potassium voltage-gated 3757 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily H transporter member 2 KCNH3 Potassium voltage-gated 23416 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily H transporter member 3 KCNH4 Potassium voltage-gated 23415 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily H transporter member 4 KCNH5 Potassium voltage-gated 27133 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily H transporter member 5 KCNH6 Potassium voltage-gated 81033 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily H transporter member 6 KCNH7 Potassium voltage-gated 90134 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily H transporter member 7 KCNH8 Potassium voltage-gated 131096 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily H transporter member 8 KCNJ1 Potassium voltage-gated 3758 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 1 KCNJ10 Potassium voltage-gated 3766 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 10 KCNJ11 Potassium voltage-gated 3767 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 11 KCNJ12 Potassium voltage-gated 3768 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 12 KCNJ13 Potassium voltage-gated 3769 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 13 KCNJ14 Potassium voltage-gated 3770 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 14 KCNJ15 Potassium voltage-gated 3772 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 15 KCNJ16 Potassium voltage-gated 3773 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 16 KCNJ2 Potassium voltage-gated 3759 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 2 KCNJ3 Potassium voltage-gated 3760 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 3 KCNJ4 Potassium voltage-gated 3761 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 4 KCNJ5 Potassium voltage-gated 3762 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 5 KCNJ6 Potassium voltage-gated 3763 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 6 KCNJ8 Potassium voltage-gated 3764 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 8 KCNJ9 Potassium voltage-gated 3765 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily J transporter member 9 KCNK1 Potassium two pore domain 3775 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 1 KCNK10 Potassium two pore domain 54207 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 10 KCNK12 Potassium two pore domain 56660 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 12 KCNK13 Potassium two pore domain 56659 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 13 KCNK15 Potassium two pore domain 60598 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 15 KCNK16 Potassium two pore domain 83795 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 16 KCNK17 Potassium two pore domain 89822 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 17 KCNK18 Potassium two pore domain 338567 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 18 KCNK2 Potassium two pore domain 3776 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 2 KCNK3 Potassium two pore domain 3777 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 3 KCNK4 Potassium two pore domain 50801 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 4 KCNK5 Potassium two pore domain 8645 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 5 KCNK6 Potassium two pore domain 9424 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 6 KCNK7 Potassium two pore domain 10089 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 7 KCNK9 Potassium two pore domain 51305 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily K transporter member 9 KCNMA1 Potassium calcium- 3778 Channel or Channel Vgic activated channel subfamily transporter M alpha 1 KCNN1 Potassium calcium- 3780 Channel or Channel Vgic activated channel subfamily transporter N member 1 KCNN2 Potassium calcium- 3781 Channel or Channel Vgic activated channel subfamily transporter N member 2 KCNN3 Potassium calcium- 3782 Channel or Channel Vgic activated channel subfamily transporter N member 3 KCNN4 Potassium calcium- 3783 Channel or Channel Vgic activated channel subfamily transporter N member 4 KCNQ1 Potassium voltage-gated 3784 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily Q transporter member 1 KCNQ2 Potassium voltage-gated 3785 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily Q transporter member 2 KCNQ3 Potassium voltage-gated 3786 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily Q transporter member 3 KCNQ4 Potassium voltage-gated 9132 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily Q transporter member 4 KCNQ5 Potassium voltage-gated 56479 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily Q transporter member 5 KCNS1 Potassium voltage-gated 3787 Channel or Channel Vgic channel modifier subfamily transporter S member 1 KCNS2 Potassium voltage-gated 3788 Channel or Channel Vgic channel modifier subfamily transporter S member 2 KCNS3 Potassium voltage-gated 3790 Channel or Channel Vgic channel modifier subfamily transporter S member 3 KCNT1 Potassium sodium-activated 57582 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily T transporter member 1 KCNT2 Potassium sodium-activated 343450 Channel or Channel Vgic channel subfamily T transporter member 2 KCNU1 Potassium calcium- 157855 Channel or Channel Vgic activated channel subfamily transporter U member 1 KCNV1 Potassium voltage-gated 27012 Channel or Channel Vgic channel modifier subfamily transporter V member 1 KCNV2 Potassium voltage-gated 169522 Channel or Channel Vgic channel modifier subfamily transporter V member 2 MCOLN1 Mucolipin 1 57192 Channel or Channel Vgic transporter MCOLN2 Mucolipin 2 255231 Channel or Channel Vgic transporter MCOLN3 Mucolipin 3 55283 Channel or Channel Vgic transporter PKD2 Polycystin 2, transient 5311 Channel or Channel Vgic receptor potential cation transporter channel PKD2L1 Polycystin 2 like 1, transient 9033 Channel or Channel Vgic receptor potential cation transporter channel PKD2L2 Polycystin 2 like 2, transient 27039 Channel or Channel Vgic receptor potential cation transporter channel RYR1 Ryanodine receptor 1 6261 Channel or Channel Vgic transporter RYR2 Ryanodine receptor 2 6262 Channel or Channel Vgic transporter RYR3 Ryanodine receptor 3 6263 Channel or Channel Vgic transporter SCN10A Sodium voltage-gated 6336 Channel or Channel Vgic channel alpha subunit 10 transporter SCN11A Sodium voltage-gated 11280 Channel or Channel Vgic channel alpha subunit 11 transporter SCN1A Sodium voltage-gated 6323 Channel or Channel Vgic channel alpha subunit 1 transporter SCN1B Sodium voltage-gated 6324 Channel or Channel Vgic channel beta subunit 1 transporter SCN2A Sodium voltage-gated 6326 Channel or Channel Vgic channel alpha subunit 2 transporter SCN2B Sodium voltage-gated 6327 Channel or Channel Vgic channel beta subunit 2 transporter SCN3A Sodium voltage-gated 6328 Channel or Channel Vgic channel alpha subunit 3 transporter SCN3B Sodium voltage-gated 55800 Channel or Channel Vgic channel beta subunit 3 transporter SCN4A Sodium voltage-gated 6329 Channel or Channel Vgic channel alpha subunit 4 transporter SCN4B Sodium voltage-gated 6330 Channel or Channel Vgic channel beta subunit 4 transporter SCN5A Sodium voltage-gated 6331 Channel or Channel Vgic channel alpha subunit 5 transporter SCN7A Sodium voltage-gated 6332 Channel or Channel Vgic channel alpha subunit 7 transporter SCN8A Sodium voltage-gated 6334 Channel or Channel Vgic channel alpha subunit 8 transporter SCN9A Sodium voltage-gated 6335 Channel or Channel Vgic channel alpha subunit 9 transporter TPCN1 Two pore segment channel 53373 Channel or Channel Vgic 1 transporter TPCN2 Two pore segment channel 219931 Channel or Channel Vgic 2 transporter TRPA1 Transient receptor potential 8989 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily A transporter member 1 TRPC1 Transient receptor potential 7220 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily C transporter member 1 TRPC2 Transient receptor potential 7221 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily C transporter member 2, pseudogene TRPC3 Transient receptor potential 7222 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily C transporter member 3 TRPC4 Transient receptor potential 7223 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily C transporter member 4 TRPC5 Transient receptor potential 7224 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily C transporter member 5 TRPC6 Transient receptor potential 7225 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily C transporter member 6 TRPC7 Transient receptor potential 57113 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily C transporter member 7 TRPM1 Transient receptor potential 4308 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily M transporter member 1 TRPM2 Transient receptor potential 7226 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily M transporter member 2 TRPM3 Transient receptor potential 80036 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily M transporter member 3 TRPM4 Transient receptor potential 54795 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily M transporter member 4 TRPM5 Transient receptor potential 29850 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily M transporter member 5 TRPM6 Transient receptor potential 140803 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily M transporter member 6 TRPM7 Transient receptor potential 54822 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily M transporter member 7 TRPM8 Transient receptor potential 79054 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily M transporter member 8 TRPV1 Transient receptor potential 7442 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily V transporter member 1 TRPV2 Transient receptor potential 51393 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily V transporter member 2 TRPV3 Transient receptor potential 162514 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily V transporter member 3 TRPV4 Transient receptor potential 59341 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily V transporter member 4 TRPV5 Transient receptor potential 56302 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily V transporter member 5 TRPV6 Transient receptor potential 55503 Channel or Channel Vgic cation channel subfamily V transporter member 6 Lgic = ligand-gated ion channel, Vgic = voltage-gated ion channel, Other_ic = other ion channel

Agent Modalities

A neuromodulating agent can be a number of different modalities. A neuromodulating agent can be a nucleic acid molecule (e.g., DNA molecule or RNA molecule, e.g., mRNA, guide RNA (gRNA), or inhibitory RNA molecule (e.g., siRNA, shRNA, or miRNA), or a hybrid DNA-RNA molecule), a small molecule (e.g., a neurotransmitter, an agonist, antagonist, or an epigenetic modifier), a peptide, or a polypeptide (e.g., an antibody molecule, e.g., an antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof, or a neuropeptide). A neuromodulating agent can also be a viral vector expressing a neurome gene or a cell infected with a viral vector. Any of these modalities can be a neuromodulating agent directed to target (e.g., to agonize or to inhibit) a gene or protein in a neurotransmitter, neuropeptide, neuronal growth factor, or neurome gene (e.g., biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular) pathway described herein (e.g., a gene or protein listed in Tables 1A-1C, Table 7, or Table 8).

The nucleic acid molecule, small molecule, peptide, polypeptide, or antibody molecule can be modified. For example, the modification can be a chemical modification, e.g., conjugation to a marker, e.g., fluorescent marker or a radioactive marker. In other examples, the modification can include conjugation to a molecule that enhances the stability or half-life of the neuromodulating agent. The modification can also include conjugation to an antibody to target the agent to a particular cell or tissue. Additionally, the modification can be a chemical modification, packaging modification (e.g., packaging within a nanoparticle or microparticle), or targeting modification to prevent the agent from crossing the blood brain barrier.

Small Molecules

Numerous small molecule neuromodulating agents useful in the methods of the invention are described herein and additional small molecule neuromodulating agents useful as therapies for cancer can also be screened based on their ability to modulate sympathetic and parasympathetic neural pathways. Small molecules include, but are not limited to, small peptides, peptidomimetics (e.g., peptoids), amino acids, amino acid analogs, synthetic polynucleotides, polynucleotide analogs, nucleotides, nucleotide analogs, organic and inorganic compounds (including heterorganic and organomettallic compounds) generally having a molecular weight less than about 5,000 grams per mole, e.g., organic or inorganic compounds having a molecular weight less than about 2,000 grams per mole, e.g., organic or inorganic compounds having a molecular weight less than about 1,000 grams per mole, e.g., organic or inorganic compounds having a molecular weight less than about 500 grams per mole, and salts, esters, and other pharmaceutically acceptable forms of such compounds.

In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is an agonist or antagonist listed in column 2 or column 3 of Table 2A or column 2 of Tables 2B-2L, which is directed to the corresponding neurotransmitter pathway member listed in column 1 of Tables 2A-2L. In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is a neurotransmitter or neuropeptide listed in Table 1A, 1B, or encoded by a gene in Table 7, or a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 1C or encoded by a gene in Table 7. Agonists and antagonists can be used to treat a disorder or condition described herein. A pharmaceutical composition comprising the agonist, antagonist, neurotransmitter, neuropeptide, or neuronal growth factor can be formulated for treatment of a cancer described herein. In some embodiments, a pharmaceutical composition that includes the agonist or antagonist is formulated for local administration, e.g., to the affected site in a subject.

Polypeptides

In embodiments, a neuromodulating agent described herein comprises a neuromodulating agent polypeptide or an analog thereof. For example, a neuromodulating agent described herein is a neuropeptide or an analog thereof.

The neuromodulating agent can be a neuropeptide listed in Table 1A or 1B, a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 1C, or a protein encoded by a neurome gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular protein), wherein the primary sequence of the neuromodulating agent is provided by reference to accession number or Entrez Gene ID. The agent can be a polypeptide having the sequence referenced by accession number or Entrez Gene ID of a neuropeptide listed in Table 1 A or 1B, a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 10, or a protein encoded by a neurome gene listed in Table 7, or an analog thereof, e.g., a sequence having at least 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 90%, 98%, 99% or 100% identity to the sequence referenced by accession number or Entrez Gene ID.

Percent identity in the context of two or more polypeptide sequences or nucleic acids, refers to two or more sequences that are the same. Two sequences are “substantially identical” if two sequences have a specified percentage of amino acid residues or nucleotides that are the same (e.g., at least 60% identity, e.g., at least 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% identity, e.g., over a specified region, or, when not specified, over the entire sequence), when compared and aligned for maximum correspondence over a comparison window, or designated region as measured using a sequence comparison algorithms or by manual alignment and visual inspection. In some cases, the identity (or substantial identity) exists over a region that is at least about 50 nucleotides (or 10 amino acids) in length, or more preferably over a region that is 100 to 500 or 1000 or more nucleotides (or 20, 50, 200 or more amino acids) in length.

For sequence comparison, typically one sequence acts as a reference sequence, to which test sequences are compared. When using a sequence comparison algorithm, test and reference sequences are entered into a computer, subsequence coordinates are designated, if necessary, and sequence algorithm program parameters are designated. Default program parameters can be used, or alternative parameters can be designated. The sequence comparison algorithm then calculates the percent sequence identities for the test sequences relative to the reference sequence, based on the program parameters. Methods of alignment of sequences for comparison are well known in the art. Optimal alignment of sequences for comparison can be conducted, e.g., by the local homology algorithm of Smith and Waterman, Adv. Appl. Math. 2:482c, 1970, by the homology alignment algorithm of Needleman and Wunsch, J. Mol. Biol. 48:443, 1970, by the search for similarity method of Pearson and Lipman, Proc. Nat'l. Acad. Sci. USA 85:2444, 1988, by computerized implementations of these algorithms (GAP, BESTFIT, FASTA, and TFASTA in the Wisconsin Genetics Software Package, Genetics Computer Group, 575 Science Dr., Madison, Wis.), or by manual alignment and visual inspection (see, e.g., Brent et al., Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, 2003).

Two examples of algorithms that are suitable for determining percent sequence identity and sequence similarity are the BLAST and BLAST 2.0 algorithms, which are described in Altschul et al., Nuc. Acids Res. 25:3389, 1977; and Altschul et al., J. Mol. Biol. 215:403, 1990, respectively. Software for performing BLAST analyses is publicly available through the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

The percent identity between two amino acid sequences can also be determined using the algorithm of E. Meyers and W. Miller, Comput. Appl. Biosci. 4:11, 1988) which has been incorporated into the ALIGN program (version 2.0), using a PAM120 weight residue table, a gap length penalty of 12 and a gap penalty of 4. In addition, the percent identity between two amino acid sequences can be determined using the Needleman and Wunsch, J. Mol. Biol. 48:444, 1970) algorithm which has been incorporated into the GAP program in the GCG software package (available at www.gcg.com), using either a Blossom 62 matrix or a PAM250 matrix, and a gap weight of 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, or 4 and a length weight of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6.

Methods of making a therapeutic polypeptide are routine in the art. See, in general, Smales & James (Eds.), Therapeutic Proteins: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology), Humana Press 2005; and Crommelin, Sindelar & Meibohm (Eds.), Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Fundamentals and Applications, Springer 2013.

Some methods for producing a neuromodulating agent polypeptide involve expression in mammalian cells, although recombinant proteins can also be produced using insect cells, yeast, bacteria, or other cells under the control of appropriate promoters. Mammalian expression vectors may comprise nontranscribed elements such as an origin of replication, a suitable promoter and enhancer, and other 5′ or 3′ flanking nontranscribed sequences, and 5′ or 3′ nontranslated sequences such as necessary ribosome binding sites, a polyadenylation site, splice donor and acceptor sites, and termination sequences. DNA sequences derived from the SV40 viral genome, for example, SV40 origin, early promoter, enhancer, splice, and polyadenylation sites may be used to provide the other genetic elements required for expression of a heterologous DNA sequence. Appropriate cloning and expression vectors for use with bacterial, fungal, yeast, and mammalian cellular hosts are described in Green & Sambrook, Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual (Fourth Edition), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2012.

Various mammalian cell culture systems can be employed to express and manufacture recombinant protein. Examples of mammalian expression systems include CHO cells, COS cells, HeLA and BHK cell lines. Processes of host cell culture for production of protein therapeutics are described in Zhou and Kantardjieff (Eds.), Mammalian Cell Cultures for Biologics Manufacturing (Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology), Springer 2014.

Purification of protein therapeutics is known and is described, e.g., in Franks, Protein Biotechnology: Isolation, Characterization, and Stabilization, Humana Press 2013; and in Cutler, Protein Purification Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology), Humana Press 2010.

Formulation of protein therapeutics is known and is described, e.g., in Meyer (Ed.), Therapeutic Protein Drug Products: Practical Approaches to formulation in the Laboratory, Manufacturing, and the Clinic, Woodhead Publishing Series 2012.

Antibodies

The neuromodulating agent can be an antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof. For example, a neuromodulating agent described herein is an antibody that blocks or potentiates activity and/or function of a receptor, neuropeptide, neurotransmitter or transporter listed in Table 1A, a ligand listed in Table 1B, a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 10, or a neurome gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene).

The making and use of therapeutic antibodies against a target antigen (e.g., against a protein in a neurotransmitter pathway described herein (e.g., a protein product of a gene listed in Table 1)) is known in the art. See, for example, the references cited herein above, as well as Zhiqiang An (Editor), Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies: From Bench to Clinic. 1st Edition. Wiley 2009, and also Greenfield (Ed.), Antibodies: A Laboratory Manual. (Second edition) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2013, for methods of making recombinant antibodies, including antibody engineering, use of degenerate oligonucleotides, 5′-RACE, phage display, and mutagenesis; antibody testing and characterization; antibody pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; antibody purification and storage; and screening and labeling techniques.

Synthetic mRNA

In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is an mRNA molecule, e.g., a synthetic mRNA molecule encoding a protein listed in Tables 1A-1C, or a protein encoded by a gene in Table 7 or Table 8. The mRNA molecule may increase the level (e.g., protein and/or mRNA level) and/or activity or function of a neurotransmitter, neurotransmitter receptor, neuropeptide, neuropeptide receptor, neuronal growth factor, or neurome gene in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene), e.g., a positive regulator of function. The mRNA molecule can encode a neuromodulating agent or a fragment thereof. For example, the mRNA molecule encodes a polypeptide having at least 50% (e.g., at least 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 97%, 99%, or greater) identity to the amino acid sequence of a neuromodulating agent listed in Table 1A, a ligand listed in Table 1B, a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 10, or neurome gene in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene), all with reference to accession number or Entrez Gene ID provided. In other examples, the mRNA molecule has at least 50% (e.g., at least 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95%, 97%, 99%, or greater) identity to the nucleic acid sequence of a neuromodulating agent listed in Table 1A, a ligand listed in Table 1B, a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 1 C, or a neurome gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene). The mRNA molecule can encode an amino acid sequence differing by no more than 30 (e.g., no more than 30, 20, 10, 5, 4, 3, 2, or 1) amino acids to the amino acid sequence of a neuromodulating agent listed in Table 1A, a ligand listed in Table 1B, a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 1C, or a neurome gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene), all with reference to accession number or Entrez Gene ID provided. The mRNA molecule can have a sequence encoding a fragment of a neuromodulating agent listed in Table 1A, a ligand listed in Table 1B, a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 1C, or a neurome gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene), all with reference to accession number or Entrez Gene ID provided. For example, the fragment comprises 10-20, 20-40, 40-60, 60-80, 80-100, 100-120, 120-140, 140-160, 160-180, 180-200, 200-250, 250-300, 300-400, 400-500, 500-600, or more amino acids in length. In embodiments, the fragment is a functional fragment, e.g., having at least 20%, e.g., at least 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, or greater, of an activity of a full length neuromodulating agent listed in Table 1A, a ligand listed in Table 1B, a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 1C, or a neurome gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene), all with reference to accession number or Entrez Gene ID provided. In embodiments, the mRNA molecule increases the level and/or activity or function of or encodes a neuromodulating agent (or fragment thereof).

The synthetic mRNA molecule can be modified, e.g., chemically. The mRNA molecule can be chemically synthesized or transcribed in vitro. The mRNA molecule can be disposed on a plasmid, e.g., a viral vector, bacterial vector, or eukaryotic expression vector. In some examples, the mRNA molecule can be delivered to cells by transfection, electroporation, or transduction (e.g., adenoviral or lentiviral transduction).

In some embodiments, the modified RNA encoding a neuromodulating agent of interest described herein has modified nucleosides or nucleotides. Such modifications are known and are described, e.g., in WO2012019168. Additional modifications are described, e.g., in WO2015038892; WO2015038892; WO2015089511; WO2015196130; WO2015196118 and WO2015196128A2.

In some embodiments, the modified RNA encoding a polypeptide of interest described herein has one or more terminal modifications, e.g., a 5′Cap structure and/or a poly-A tail (e.g., of between 100-200 nucleotides in length). The 5′ cap structure may be selected from the group consisting of CapO, CapI, ARCA, inosine, NI-methyl-guanosine, 2′fluoro-guanosine, 7-deaza-guanosine, 8-oxo-guanosine, 2-amino-guanosine, LNA-guanosine, and 2-azido-guanosine. In some cases, the modified RNAs also contain a 5 ‘ UTR comprising at least one Kozak sequence, and a 3’ UTR. Such modifications are known and are described, e.g., in WO2012135805 and WO2013052523. Additional terminal modifications are described, e.g., in WO2014164253 and WO2016011306. WO2012045075 and WO2014093924

Chimeric enzymes for synthesizing capped RNA molecules (e.g., modified mRNA) which may include at least one chemical modification are described in WO2014028429.

In some embodiments, a modified mRNA may be cyclized, or concatemerized, to generate a translation competent molecule to assist interactions between poly-A binding proteins and 5′-end binding proteins. The mechanism of cyclization or concatemerization may occur through at least 3 different routes: 1) chemical, 2) enzymatic, and 3) ribozyme catalyzed. The newly formed 5′/3′-linkage may be intramolecular or intermolecular. Such modifications are described, e.g., in WO2013151736.

Methods of making and purifying modified RNAs are known and disclosed in the art. For example, modified RNAs are made using only in vitro transcription (IVT) enzymatic synthesis. Methods of making IVT polynucleotides are known in the art and are described in WO2013151666, WO2013151668, WO2013151663, WO2013151669, WO2013151670, WO2013151664, WO2013151665, WO2013151671, WO2013151672, WO2013151667 and WO2013151736.S Methods of purification include purifying an RNA transcript comprising a polyA tail by contacting the sample with a surface linked to a plurality of thymidines or derivatives thereof and/or a plurality of uracils or derivatives thereof (polyT/U) under conditions such that the RNA transcript binds to the surface and eluting the purified RNA transcript from the surface (WO2014152031); using ion (e.g., anion) exchange chromatography that allows for separation of longer RNAs up to 10,000 nucleotides in length via a scalable method (WO2014144767); and subjecting a modified mRNA sample to DNAse treatment (WO2014152030).

Formulations of modified RNAs are known and are described, e.g., in WO2013090648. For example, the formulation may be, but is not limited to, nanoparticles, poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)(PLGA) microspheres, lipidoids, lipoplex, liposome, polymers, carbohydrates (including simple sugars), cationic lipids, fibrin gel, fibrin hydrogel, fibrin glue, fibrin sealant, fibrinogen, thrombin, rapidly eliminated lipid nanoparticles (reLNPs) and combinations thereof.

Modified RNAs encoding polypeptides in the fields of human disease, antibodies, viruses, and a variety of in vivo settings are known and are disclosed in for example, Table 6 of International Publication Nos. WO2013151666, WO2013151668, WO2013151663, WO2013151669, WO2013151670, WO2013151664, WO2013151665, and WO2013151736; Tables 6 and 7 of International Publication No. WO2013151672; Tables 6, 178 and 179 of International Publication No. WO2013151671; Tables 6, 185 and 186 of International Publication No. WO2013151667. Any of the foregoing may be synthesized as an IVT polynucleotide, chimeric polynucleotide or a circular polynucleotide, and each may comprise one or more modified nucleotides or terminal modifications.

Inhibitory RNA

In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is an inhibitory RNA molecule, e.g., that acts by way of the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway. An inhibitory RNA molecule can decrease the expression level (e.g., protein level or mRNA level) of a neurotransmitter, neuropeptide, receptor, neuronal growth factor, or neurome gene listed herein. For example, an inhibitory RNA molecule includes a short interfering RNA, short hairpin RNA, and/or a microRNA that targets a full length neuromodulating agent listed in Table 1A, a ligand listed in Table 1B, a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 1C, or a neurome gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene), all with reference to accession number or Entrez Gene ID provided. A siRNA is a double-stranded RNA molecule that typically has a length of about 19-25 base pairs. A shRNA is a RNA molecule comprising a hairpin turn that decreases expression of target genes via RNAi. shRNAs can be delivered to cells in the form of plasmids, e.g., viral or bacterial vectors, e.g., by transfection, electroporation, or transduction). A microRNA is a non-coding RNA molecule that typically has a length of about 22 nucleotides. MiRNAs bind to target sites on mRNA molecules and silence the mRNA, e.g., by causing cleavage of the mRNA, destabilization of the mRNA, or inhibition of translation of the mRNA. In embodiments, the inhibitory RNA molecule decreases the level and/or activity of a negative regulator of function or a positive regulator of function. In other embodiments, the inhibitor RNA molecule decreases the level and/or activity of an inhibitor of a positive regulator of function.

An inhibitory RNA molecule can be modified, e.g., to contain modified nucleotides, e.g., 2′-fluoro, 2′-o-methyl, 2′-deoxy, unlocked nucleic acid, 2′-hydroxy, phosphorothioate, 2′-thiouridine, 4′-thiouridine, 2′-deoxyuridine. Without being bound by theory, it is believed that certain modification can increase nuclease resistance and/or serum stability, or decrease immunogenicity.

In some embodiments, the inhibitory RNA molecule decreases the level and/or activity or function of a neuromodulating agent. In embodiments, the inhibitory RNA molecule inhibits expression of a neuromodulating agent (e.g., inhibits translation to protein). In other embodiments, the inhibitor RNA molecule increases degradation of a neuromodulating agent and/or decreases the stability (i.e., half-life) of a neuromodulating agent. The inhibitory RNA molecule can be chemically synthesized or transcribed in vitro.

The making and use of inhibitory therapeutic agents based on non-coding RNA such as ribozymes, RNAse P, siRNAs, and miRNAs are also known in the art, for example, as described in Sioud, RNA Therapeutics: Function, Design, and Delivery (Methods in Molecular Biology). Humana Press 2010.

Gene Editing

In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent is a component of a gene editing system. For example, the neuromodulating agent introduces an alteration (e.g., insertion, deletion (e.g., knockout), translocation, inversion, single point mutation, or other mutation) in a gene related to a neurotransmitter pathway, e.g., a neuropeptide or receptor gene described in Table 1A, a ligand listed in Table 1B, a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 1 C, or a neurome gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene), all with reference to accession number or Entrez Gene ID provided. Exemplary gene editing systems include the zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), Transcription Activator-Like Effector-based Nucleases (TALEN), and the clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) system. ZFNs, TALENs, and CRISPR-based methods are described, e.g., in Gaj et al. Trends Biotechnol. 31.7(2013):397-405.

CRISPR refers to a set of (or system comprising a set of) clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. A CRISPR system refers to a system derived from CRISPR and Cas (a CRISPR-associated protein) or other nuclease that can be used to silence or mutate a gene described herein. The CRISPR system is a naturally occurring system found in bacterial and archeal genomes. The CRISPR locus is made up of alternating repeat and spacer sequences. In naturally-occurring CRISPR systems, the spacers are typically sequences that are foreign to the bacterium (e.g., plasmid or phage sequences). The CRISPR system has been modified for use in gene editing (e.g., changing, silencing, and/or enhancing certain genes) in eukaryotes. See, e.g., Wiedenheft et al., Nature 482: 331, 2012. For example, such modification of the system includes introducing into a eukaryotic cell a plasmid containing a specifically-designed CRISPR and one or more appropriate Cas proteins. The CRISPR locus is transcribed into RNA and processed by Cas proteins into small RNAs that comprise a repeat sequence flanked by a spacer. The RNAs serve as guides to direct Cas proteins to silence specific DNA/RNA sequences, depending on the spacer sequence. See, e.g., Horvath et al., Science 327: 167, 2010; Makarova et al., Biology Direct 1:7, 2006; Pennisi, Science 341: 833, 2013. In some examples, the CRISPR system includes the Cas9 protein, a nuclease that cuts on both strands of the DNA. See, e.g., i.d.

In some embodiments, in a CRISPR system for use described herein, e.g., in accordance with one or more methods described herein, the spacers of the CRISPR are derived from a target gene sequence, e.g., from a sequence (with reference to the accession number) of a neurotransmitter pathway gene, e.g., a neuropeptide or receptor gene listed in Table 1A, a ligand listed in Table 1B, a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 10, or a neurome gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene), all with reference to accession number or Entrez Gene ID provided.

In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent includes a guide RNA (gRNA) for use in a clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) system for gene editing. In embodiments, the neuromodulating agent comprises a zinc finger nuclease (ZFN), or an mRNA encoding a ZFN, that targets (e.g., cleaves) a nucleic acid sequence (e.g., DNA sequence) of a gene related to a neurotransmitter pathway, e.g., a neuropeptide or receptor gene described in Table 1. In embodiments, the neuromodulating agent comprises a TALEN, or an mRNA encoding a TALEN, that targets (e.g., cleaves) a nucleic acid sequence (e.g., DNA sequence) in a gene related to a neurotransmitter pathway, e.g., a neuropeptide or receptor gene described in Table 1A, a ligand listed in Table 1B, a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 10, or a neurome gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene), all with reference to accession number or Entrez Gene ID provided.

For example, the gRNA can be used in a CRISPR system to engineer an alteration in a gene (e.g., a gene related to a neurotransmitter pathway, e.g., a neuropeptide, neurotransmitter, neuronal growth factor or receptor gene described in Tables 1A, 1B, or 10, or a neurome gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene)). In other examples, the ZFN and/or TALEN can be used to engineer an alteration in a gene (e.g., a gene related to a neurotransmitter pathway, e.g., a neuropeptide, neurotransmitter, neuronal growth factor, or receptor gene described in Tables 1A, 1B, or 1C, or a neurome gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene)). Exemplary alterations include insertions, deletions (e.g., knockouts), translocations, inversions, single point mutations, or other mutations. The alteration can be introduced in the gene in a cell, e.g., in vitro, ex vivo, or in vivo. In some examples, the alteration increases the level and/or activity of a neuromodulator, e.g., the alteration is a positive regulator of function. In other examples, the alteration decreases the level and/or activity of (e.g., knocks down or knocks out) a neuromodulator, e.g., the alteration is a negative regulator of function. In yet another example, the alteration corrects a defect (e.g., a mutation causing a defect), in a gene related to a neurotransmitter pathway, e.g., a neuropeptide or receptor gene described in Table 1A, a ligand listed in Table 1B, a neuronal growth factor listed in Table 1C, or a neurome gene listed in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene), all with reference to accession number or Entrez Gene ID provided.

In certain embodiments, the CRISPR system is used to edit (e.g., to add or delete a base pair) a target gene, e.g., a neuromodulating agent, e.g., described herein. In other embodiments, the CRISPR system is used to introduce a premature stop codon, e.g., thereby decreasing the expression of a target gene. In yet other embodiments, the CRISPR system is used to turn off a target gene in a reversible manner, e.g., similarly to RNA interference. In embodiments, the CRISPR system is used to direct Cas to a promoter of a neuromodulator, e.g., described herein, for example, thereby blocking an RNA polymerase sterically.

In some embodiments, a CRISPR system can be generated to edit a neuromodulator (e.g., a gene related to a neurotransmitter pathway, e.g., a neuropeptide or receptor gene described in Table 1A-1C), using technology described in, e.g., U.S. Publication No. 20140068797; Cong, Science 339: 819, 2013; Tsai, Nature Biotechnol., 32:569, 2014; and U.S. Pat. Nos. 8,871,445; 8,865,406; 8,795,965; 8,771,945; and 8,697,359.

In some embodiments, the CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) technique can be used for transcriptional repression of specific genes, e.g., a gene encoding a neuromodulating agent (e.g., a neuropeptide, neurotransmitter, neuronal growth factor, neurome gene, or receptor described herein). In CRISPRi, an engineered Cas9 protein (e.g., nuclease-null dCas9, or dCas9 fusion protein, e.g., dCas9-KRAB or dCas9-SID4X fusion) can pair with a sequence specific guide RNA (sgRNA). The Cas9-gRNA complex can block RNA polymerase, thereby interfering with transcription elongation. The complex can also block transcription initiation by interfering with transcription factor binding. The CRISPRi method is specific with minimal off-target effects and is multiplexable, e.g., can simultaneously repress more than one gene (e.g., using multiple gRNAs). Also, the CRISPRi method permits reversible gene repression.

In some embodiments, CRISPR-mediated gene activation (CRISPRa) can be used for transcriptional activation, e.g., of one or more genes described herein, e.g., a neuromodulating agent (e.g., a neuropeptide, neurotransmitter, neuronal growth factor, neurome gene, or receptor described herein). In the CRISPRa technique, dCas9 fusion proteins recruit transcriptional activators. For example, dCas9 can be used to recruit polypeptides (e.g., activation domains) such as VP64 or the p65 activation domain (p65D) and used with sgRNA (e.g., a single sgRNA or multiple sgRNAs), to activate a gene or genes, e.g., endogenous gene(s). Multiple activators can be recruited by using multiple sgRNAs—this can increase activation efficiency. A variety of activation domains and single or multiple activation domains can be used. In addition to engineering dCas9 to recruit activators, sgRNAs can also be engineered to recruit activators. For example, RNA aptamers can be incorporated into a sgRNA to recruit proteins (e.g., activation domains) such as VP64. In some examples, the synergistic activation mediator (SAM) system can be used for transcriptional activation. In SAM, MS2 aptamers are added to the sgRNA. MS2 recruits the MS2 coat protein (MCP) fused to p65AD and heat shock factor 1 (HSF1).

The CRISPRi and CRISPRa techniques are described in greater detail, e.g., in Dominguez et al., Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 17:5, 2016, incorporated herein by reference. In addition, dCas9-mediated epigenetic modifications and simultaneous activation and repression using CRISPR systems, as described in Dominguez et al., can be used to modulate a thymic function modulator or thymic function factor described herein.

Viral Vectors

The neuromodulating agent can be a viral vector (e.g., a viral vector expressing a neurome gene). Viral vectors can be used to express a transgene encoding a neurotransmitter, neuropeptide, receptor, or neuronal growth factor from Tables 1A-1C or a neurome gene in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene), all with reference to accession number or Entrez Gene ID provided. A viral vector may be administered to a cell or to a subject (e.g., a human subject or animal model) to increase expression of a neurotransmitter, neuropeptide, receptor, or neuronal growth factor from Tables 1A-1C or a neurome gene in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene). Viral vectors can also be used to express a neurotoxin from Table 3. A viral vector expressing a neurotoxin from Table 3 can be administered to a cell or to a subject (e.g., a human subject or animal model) to decrease neurotransmission. Viral vectors can be directly administered (e.g., injected) to a lymph node, site of inflammation, or tumor to treat cancer.

Viral genomes provide a rich source of vectors that can be used for the efficient delivery of exogenous genes into a mammalian cell. Viral genomes are particularly useful vectors for gene delivery because the polynucleotides contained within such genomes are typically incorporated into the nuclear genome of a mammalian cell by generalized or specialized transduction. These processes occur as part of the natural viral replication cycle, and do not require added proteins or reagents in order to induce gene integration. Examples of viral vectors include a retrovirus (e.g., Retroviridae family viral vector), adenovirus (e.g., Ad5, Ad26, Ad34, Ad35, and Ad48), parvovirus (e.g., adeno-associated viruses), coronavirus, negative strand RNA viruses such as orthomyxovirus (e.g., influenza virus), rhabdovirus (e.g., rabies and vesicular stomatitis virus), paramyxovirus (e.g., measles and Sendai), positive strand RNA viruses, such as picornavirus and alphavirus, and double stranded DNA viruses including adenovirus, herpesvirus (e.g., Herpes Simplex virus types 1 and 2, Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, replication deficient herpes virus), and poxvirus (e.g., vaccinia, modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA), fowlpox and canarypox). Other viruses include Norwalk virus, togavirus, flavivirus, reoviruses, papovavirus, hepadnavirus, human papilloma virus, human foamy virus, and hepatitis virus, for example. Examples of retroviruses include: avian leukosis-sarcoma, avian C-type viruses, mammalian C-type, B-type viruses, D-type viruses, oncoretroviruses, HTLV-BLV group, lentivirus, alpharetrovirus, gammaretrovirus, spumavirus (Coffin, J. M., Retroviridae: The viruses and their replication, Virology (Third Edition) Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1996). Other examples include murine leukemia viruses, murine sarcoma viruses, mouse mammary tumor virus, bovine leukemia virus, feline leukemia virus, feline sarcoma virus, avian leukemia virus, human T-cell leukemia virus, baboon endogenous virus, Gibbon ape leukemia virus, Mason Pfizer monkey virus, simian immunodeficiency virus, simian sarcoma virus, Rous sarcoma virus and lentiviruses. Other examples of vectors are described, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,801,030, the teachings of which are incorporated herein by reference.

Cell-Based Therapies

A neuromodulating agent described herein can be administered to a cell in vitro (e.g., an immune cell), which can subsequently be administered to a subject (e.g., a human subject or animal model). The neuromodulating agent can be administered to the cell to effect an immune response (e.g., activation, polarization, antigen presentation, cytokine production, migration, proliferation, or differentiation) as described herein. Once the immune response is elicited, the cell can be administered to a subject (e.g., injected) to treat cancer. The immune cell can be locally administered (e.g., injected into a tumor, lymph node or secondary lymphoid organ, or a site of inflammation).

A neuromodulating agent can also be administered to a cell in vitro (e.g., an immune cell) to alter gene expression in the cell. The neuromodulating agent can increase or decrease the expression of a gene in Table 12 in a corresponding immune cell, or the neuromodulating agent can increase or decrease the expression of a neurotransmitter, neuropeptide, receptor, or neuronal growth factor from Tables 1A-1C or a neurome gene in Table 7 or Table 8 (e.g., a biosynthesis, channel, transporter, ligand, receptor, signaling, synaptic, structural, or vesicular gene). The neuromodulating agent can be a polypeptide or nucleic acid (e.g., mRNA or inhibitory RNA) described above. The neuromodulating agent can be an exogenous gene encoded by a plasmid that is introduced into the cell using standard methods (e.g., calcium phosphate precipitation, electroporation, microinjection, infection, lipofection, impalefection, laserfection, or magnetofection), The neuromodulating agent can be a viral vector (e.g., a viral vector expressing a neurome gene) that is introduced to the cell using standard transduction methods. The plasmid or vector can also contain a reporter construct (e.g., a fluorescent reporter) that can be used to confirm expression of the transgene by the immune cell. After the immune cell has been contacted with a neuromodulating agent to increase or decrease gene expression, the cell can be administered to a subject (e.g., injected) to treat cancer. The immune cell can be locally administered (e.g., injected into a tumor, lymph node or secondary lymphoid organ, or a site of inflammation).

The cell can be administered to a subject immediately after being contacted with a neuromodulating agent (e.g., within 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes of being contacted with a neuromodulating agent), or 6 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, 2 days, 3, days, 4 days, 5, days, 6 days, 7 days or more after being contacted with a neuromodulating agent. The method can include an additional step of evaluating the immune cell for an immune cell activity (e.g., activation, polarization, antigen presentation, cytokine production, migration, proliferation, or differentiation) or modulation of gene expression after contact with a neuromodulating agent and before administration to a subject.

Screening for New Agents

The invention also features a method of screening for an agent for the treatment of cancer. The method includes (a) providing a plurality of test agents, (b) evaluating the plurality of test agents for neuromodulating activity, and (c) selecting a test agent of the plurality as an anti-cancer agent if the test agent exhibits neuromodulating activity. The evaluation method can include introducing one or more test agents into a co-culture system containing at least one neuronal cell and at least one non-neuronal cell.

In certain embodiments, evaluating an agent for neuromodulating activity includes one or more of evaluating the agent for: ability to inhibit or potentiate a beta adrenergic pathway, ability to inhibit or potentiate a cholinergic pathway, ability to inhibit or potentiate a dopaminergic pathway, ability to inhibit or potentiate a serotonin pathway, ability of the agent to increase or decrease neurogenesis; ability to potentiate or inhibit the transmission of a nerve impulse; ability of the agent to increase or decrease neurome gene expression; ability of the agent to increase neurite (e.g., axon or dendrite) outgrowth; ability to increase or decrease synapse formation or maintenance; ability to increase or decrease neuropeptide signaling; or ability to increase or decrease innervation of a tissue or tumor. The method can include correlating the neuromodulating effect of an agent with a predicted effect of the agent on a mammal, e.g., a human, e.g., by providing (e.g., to the government, a health care provider, insurance company or patient) informational, marketing or instructional material, e.g., print material or computer readable material (e.g., a label, patient record or email), related to the agent or its use, identifying the agent as a possible or predicted treatment in a mammal, e.g., a human. The method can include identifying the agent as a treatment for, or lead compound for treatment of cancer, e.g., a condition described herein. The identification can be in the form of informational, marketing or instructional material. In one embodiment, the methods include correlating a value for neuromodulation activity with ability to treat cancer described herein, e.g., generating a dataset of the correlation.

Evaluating the effect of the agent on neuromodulation can include administering the agent in-vivo to an experimental mammal, or in-vitro or ex-vivo to a nerve or nervous tissue of an animal and evaluating the effect of the agent on the mammal, nerve or nervous tissue. In some embodiments, the evaluation includes entering a value for the evaluation, e.g., into a database or other record. In some embodiments, the subject is an experimental animal, e.g., a wild-type or a transgenic experimental animal.

In some embodiments, the identifying step includes: (a) contacting the agent with a cell or tissue or non-human animal whose genome includes an exogenous nucleic acid that includes a regulatory region of a neuroactive protein, operably linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding a reporter polypeptide (e.g., a light based, e.g., a colorimeteric (e.g., LacZ) or flourescently detectable label, e.g., a fluorescent reporter polypeptide, e.g., GFP, EGFP, BFP, RFP); (b) evaluating the ability of a test agent to modulate the expression of the reporter polypeptide in the cell, tissue or non-human animal; and (c) selecting a test agent that modulates the expression of the reporter polypeptide as an agent that is useful in the treatment of cancer described herein. In one embodiment, the cell or tissue is a nerve cell or tissue. In another embodiment, the non-human animal is a transgenic animal, e.g., a transgenic rodent, e.g., a mouse, rat or guinea pig, harboring the nucleic acid.

The test agents can be, e.g., nucleic acids (e.g., antisense RNA, ribozymes, modified mRNAs encoding an agent protein), polypeptides (antibodies or antigen-binding fragment thereof), peptide fragments, peptidomimetics, or small molecules (e.g., a small organic molecule with a molecular weight of less than 2000 daltons). In another embodiment, the test agent is a member of a combinatorial library, e.g., a peptide, antibody or organic combinatorial library, or a natural product library. In some embodiments, a plurality of test agents, e.g., library members, is tested. The test agents of the plurality, e.g., library, may share structural or functional characteristics. The test agent can also be a crude or semi-purified extract, e.g., a botanical extract such as a plant extract, or algal extract.

In one embodiment, the method includes two evaluating steps, e.g., the method includes a first step of evaluating the test agent in a first system, e.g., an in-vitro or cell-based or tissue system, and a second step of evaluating the test agent in a second system, e.g., a second cell or tissue system or in a non-human experimental animal (e.g., a rodent, a pig, a dog, a non-human primate). In other embodiments, the methods include two evaluating steps in the same type of system, e.g., the agent is re-evaluated in a non-human animal after a first evaluation in the same or a different non-human animal. The two evaluations can be separated by any length of time, e.g., days, weeks, months or years.

In some embodiments, the plurality of test agents are agents that do not cross the blood brain barrier. In some embodiments, the plurality of test agents is evaluated for ability to cross the blood brain barrier.

II. Blood Brain Barrier Permeability

In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agents for use in the present invention are agents that are not capable of crossing, or that do not cross, the blood brain barrier (BBB) of a mammalian subject. The BBB is a highly selective semipermeable membrane barrier that separates the circulating blood from the brain extracellular fluid (e.g., cerebrospinal fluid) in the central nervous system (CNS). The BBB is made up of high-density endothelial cells, which are connected by tight junctions. These cells prevent most molecular compounds in the bloodstream (e.g., large molecules and hydrophilic molecules) from entering the brain. Water, some gases (e.g., oxygen and carbon dioxide), and lipid-soluble molecules (e.g., hydrophobic molecules, such as steroid hormones) can cross the BBB by passive diffusion. Molecules that are needed for neural function, such as glucose and amino acids, are actively transported across the BBB.

A number of approaches can be used to render an agent BBB impermeable. These methods include modifications to increase an agent's size, polarity, or flexibility or reduce its lipophilicity, targeting approaches to direct an agent to another part of the body and away from the brain, and packaging approaches to deliver an agent in a form that does not freely diffuse across the BBB. These approaches can be used to render a BBB permeable neuromodulating agent impermeable, and they can also be used to improve the properties (e.g., cell-specific targeting) of a neuromodulating agent that does not cross the BBB. The methods that can be used to render an agent BBB impermeable are discussed in greater detail herein below.

Formulation of BBB-Permeable Agents for Enhanced Cell Targeting

One approach that can be used to render a neuromodulating agent BBB impermeable is to conjugate the agent to a targeting moiety that directs it somewhere other than the brain. The targeting moiety can be an antibody for a receptor expressed by the target cell (e.g., N-Acetylgalactosamine for liver transport; DGCR2, GBF1, GPR44 or SerpinB10 for pancreas transport; Secretoglobin, family 1A, member 1 for lung transport). The targeting moiety can also be a ligand of any receptor or other molecular identifier expressed on the target cell in the periphery. These targeting moieties can direct the neuromodulating agent of interest to its corresponding target cell, and can also prevent BBB crossing by directing the agent away from the BBB and increasing the size of the neuromodulating agent via conjugation of the targeting moiety.

Neuromodulating agents can also be rendered BBB impermeable through formulation in a particulate delivery system (e.g., a nanoparticle, liposome, or microparticle), such that the agent is not freely diffusible in blood and cannot cross the BBB. The particulate formulation used can be chosen based on the desired localization of the neuromodulating agent (e.g., a tumor, lymph node, lymphoid organ, or site of inflammation), as particles of different sizes accumulate in different locations. For example, nanoparticles with a diameter of 45 nm or less enter the lymph node, while 100 nm nanoparticles exhibit poor lymph node trafficking. Some examples of the link between particle size and localization in vivo are described in Reddy et al., J Controlled Release 112:26 2006, and Reddy et al., Nature Biotechnology 25:1159 2007.

Neuromodulating agents can be tested after the addition of a targeting moiety or after formulation in a particulate delivery system to determine whether or not they cross the BBB. Models for assessing BBB permeability include in vitro models (e.g., monolayer models, co-culture models, dynamic models, multi-fluidic models, isolated brain microvessels), in vivo models, and computational models as described in He et al., Stroke 45:2514 2014; Bickel, NeuroRx 2:15 2005; and Wang et al., Int J Pharm 288:349 2005. A neuromodulating agent that exhibits BBB impermeability can be used in the methods described herein.

Modification of Existing Compounds to Render them BBB Impermeable

There are multiple parameters that have been empirically derived in the field of medicinal chemistry to predict whether a compound will cross the BBB. The most common numeric value for describing permeability across the BBB is the logBB, defined as the logarithmic ratio of the concentration of a compound in the brain and in the blood. Empirical rules of thumb have been developed to predict BBB permeability, including rules regarding molecular size, polar surface area, sum of oxygen and nitrogen atoms, lipophilicity (e.g., partition coefficient between apolar solvent and water), “lipoaffinity”, molecular flexibility, and number of rotable bonds (summarized in Muehlbacher et al., J Comput Aided Mol Des. 25: 1095 2011; and Geldenhuys et al., Ther Deliv. 6: 961 2015). Some preferred limits on various parameters for BBB permeability are listed in Table 1 of Ghose et al., ACS Chem Neurosci. 3: 50 2012, which is incorporated herein by reference. Based on the parameters shown in the table, one of skill in the art could modify an existing neuromodulating agent to render it BBB impermeable.

One method of modifying a neuromodulating agent to prevent BBB crossing is to add a molecular adduct that does not affect the target binding specificity, kinetics, or theromodynamics of the agent. Molecular adducts that can be used to render an agent BBB impermeable include polyethylene glycol (PEG), a carbohydrate monomer or polymer, a dendrimer, a polypeptide, a charged ion, a hydrophilic group, deuterium, and fluorine. Neuromodulating agents can be tested after the addition of one or more molecular adducts or after any other properties are altered to determine whether or not they cross the BBB. Models for assessing BBB permeability include in vitro models (e.g., monolayer models, co-culture models, dynamic models, multi-fluidic models, isolated brain microvessels), in vivo models, and computational models as described in He et al., Stroke 45:2514 2014; Bickel, NeuroRx 2:15 2005; and Wang et al., Int J Pharm 288:349 2005. A neuromodulating agent that exhibits BBB impermeability can be used in the methods described herein.

Screening for or Development of BBB Impermeable Agents

Another option for developing BBB impermeable agents is to find or develop new agents that do not cross the BBB. One method for finding new BBB impermeable agents is to screen for compounds that are BBB impermeable. Compound screening can be performed using in vitro models (e.g., monolayer models, co-culture models, dynamic models, multi-fluidic models, isolated brain microvessels), in vivo models, and computational models, as described in He et al., Stroke 45:2514 2014; Bickel, NeuroRx 2:15 2005; Wang et al., Int J Pharm 288:349 2005, and Czupalla et al., Methods Mol Biol 1135:415 2014. For example, the ability of a molecule to cross the blood brain barrier can be determined in vitro using a transwell BBB assay in which microvascular endothelial cells and pericytes are co-cultured separated by a thin macroporous membrane, see e.g., Naik et al., J Pharm Sci 101:1337 2012 and Hanada et al., Int J Mol Sci 15:1812 2014; or in vivo by tracking the brain uptake of the target molecule by histology or radio-detection. Compounds would be deemed appropriate for use as neuromodulating agents in the methods described herein if they do not display BBB permeability in the aforementioned models.

III. Modulation of Immune Cells

The methods described herein can be used to modulate an immune response in a subject or cell by administering to a subject or cell a neuromodulating agent in a dose (e.g., an effective amount) and for a time sufficient to modulate the immune response. These methods can be used to treat a subject in need of modulating an immune response, e.g., a subject with cancer. One way to modulate an immune response is to modulate an immune cell activity. This modulation can occur in vivo (e.g., in a human subject or animal model) or in vitro (e.g., in acutely isolated or cultured cells, such as human cells from a patient, repository, or cell line, or rodent cells). The types of cells that can be modulated include T cells (e.g., peripheral T cells, cytotoxic T cells/CD8+ T cells, T helper cells/CD4+ T cells, memory T cells, regulatory T cells/Tregs, natural killer T cells/NKTs, mucosal associated invariant T cells, and gamma delta T cells), B cells (e.g., memory B cells, plasmablasts, plasma cells, follicular B cells/B-2 cells, marginal zone B cells, B-1 cells, regulatory B cells/Bregs), dendritic cells (e.g., myeloid DCs/conventional DCs, plasmacytoid DCs, or follicular DCs), granulocytes (e.g., eosinophils, mast cells, neutrophils, and basophils), monocytes, macrophages (e.g., peripheral macrophages or tissue resident macrophages or tumor-resident macrophages), myeloid-derived suppressor cells, natural killer (NK) cells, innate lymphoid cells, thymocytes, and megakaryocytes.

The immune cell activities that can be modulated by administering to a subject or contacting a cell with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent described herein include activation (e.g., macrophage, T cell, NK cell, B cell, dendritic cell, neutrophil, eosinophil, or basophil activation), phagocytosis (e.g., macrophage, neutrophil, monocyte, mast cell, B cell, eosinophil, or dendritic cell phagocytosis), antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis (e.g., ADCP by monocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, or dendritic cells), antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (e.g., ADCC by NK cells, monocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, eosinophils, dendritic cells, or T cells), polarization (e.g., macrophage polarization toward an M1 or M2 phenotype or T cell polarization), proliferation (e.g., proliferation of B cells, T cells, monocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells, NK cells, mast cells, neutrophils, eosinophils, or basophils), lymph node homing (e.g., lymph node homing of T cells, B cells, dendritic cells, or macrophages), lymph node egress (e.g., lymph node egress of T cells, B cells, dendritic cells, or macrophages), recruitment (e.g., recruitment of B cells, T cells, monocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells, NK cells, mast cells, neutrophils, eosinophils, or basophils), migration (e.g., migration of B cells, T cells, monocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells, NK cells, mast cells, neutrophils, eosinophils, or basophils), differentiation (e.g., regulatory T cell differentiation), immune cell cytokine production, antigen presentation (e.g., dendritic cell, macrophage, and B cell antigen presentation), maturation (e.g., dendritic cell maturation), and degranulation (e.g., mast cell, NK cell, cytotoxic T cell, neutrophil, eosinophil, or basophil degranulation). Innervation of lymph nodes or lymphoid organs, development of high endothelial venules (HEVs), and development of ectopic or tertiary lymphoid organs (TLOs) can also be modulated using the methods described herein. Modulation can increase or decrease these activities, depending on the neuromodulating agent used to contact the cell or treat a subject.

In some embodiments, an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent is an amount sufficient to modulate (e.g., increase or decrease) one or more (e.g., 2 or more, 3 or more, 4 or more) of the following immune cell activities in the subject or cell: T cell polarization; T cell activation; dendritic cell activation; neutrophil activation; eosinophil activation; basophil activation; T cell proliferation; B cell proliferation; T cell proliferation; monocyte proliferation; macrophage proliferation; dendritic cell proliferation; NK cell proliferation; mast cell proliferation; neutrophil proliferation; eosinophil proliferation; basophil proliferation; cytotoxic T cell activation; circulating monocytes; peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cells; macrophage polarization; macrophage phagocytosis; macrophage ADCP, neutrophil phagocytosis; monocyte phagocytosis; mast cell phagocytosis; B cell phagocytosis; eosinophil phagocytosis; dendritic cell phagocytosis; macrophage activation; antigen presentation (e.g., dendritic cell, macrophage, and B cell antigen presentation); antigen presenting cell migration (e.g., dendritic cell, macrophage, and B cell migration); lymph node immune cell homing and cell egress (e.g., lymph node homing and egress of T cells, B cells, dendritic cells, or macrophages); NK cell activation; NK cell ADCC, mast cell degranulation; NK cell degranulation; cytotoxic T cell degranulation; neutrophil degranulation; eosinophil degranulation; basophil degranulation; neutrophil recruitment; eosinophil recruitment; NKT cell activation; B cell activation; regulatory T cell differentiation; dendritic cell maturation; development of high endothelial venules (HEVs); development of ectopic or tertiary lymphoid organs (TLOs); or lymph node or secondary lymphoid organ innervation. In certain embodiments, the immune response (e.g., an immune cell activity listed herein) is increased or decreased in the subject or cell at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 100%, 150%, 200%, 300%, 400%, 500% or more, compared to before the administration. In certain embodiments, the immune response is increased or decreased in the subject or cell between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%, between 50-200%, between 100%-500%.

After a neuromodulating agent is administered to treat a patient or contact a cell, a readout can be used to assess the effect on immune cell activity. Immune cell activity can be assessed by measuring a cytokine or marker associated with a particular immune cell type, as listed in Table 9 (e.g., performing an assay listed in Table 9 for the cytokine or marker). In certain embodiments, the parameter is increased or decreased in the subject at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 100%, 150%, 200%, 300%, 400%, 500% or more, compared to before the administration. In certain embodiments, the parameter is increased or decreased in the subject between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%, between 50-200%, between 100%-500%. A neuromodulating agent can be administered at a dose (e.g., an effective amount) and for a time sufficient to modulate an immune cell activity described herein below.

After a neuromodulating agent is administered to treat a patient or contact a cell, a readout can be used to assess the effect on immune cell migration. Immune cell migration can be assessed by measuring the number of immune cells in a location of interest (e.g., a lymph node or secondary lymphoid organ, site of inflammation, or a tumor). Immune cell migration can also be assessed by measuring a chemokine, receptor, or marker associated with immune cell migration, as listed in Tables 10 and 11. In certain embodiments, the parameter is increased or decreased in the subject at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 100%, 150%, 200%, 300%, 400%, 500% or more, compared to before the administration. In certain embodiments, the parameter is increased or decreased in the subject between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%, between 50-200%, between 100%-500%. A neuromodulating agent can be administered at a dose (e.g., an effective amount) and for a time sufficient to modulate an immune cell migration as described herein below.

A neuromodulating agent described herein can affect immune cell migration. Immune cell migration between peripheral tissues, the blood, and the lymphatic system as well as lymphoid organs is essential for the orchestration of productive innate and adaptive immune responses. Immune cell migration is largely regulated by trafficking molecules including integrins, immunoglobulin cell-adhesion molecules (IgSF CAMs), cadherins, selectins, and a family of small cytokines called chemokines (Table 10). Cell adhesion molecules and chemokines regulate immune cell migration by both inducing extravasation from the circulation into peripheral tissues and acting as guidance cues within peripheral tissues themselves. For extravasation to occur, chemokines must act in concert with multiple trafficking molecules including C-type lectins (L-, P-, and E-selectin), multiple integrins, and cell adhesion molecules (ICAM-1, VCAM-1 and MAdCAM-1) to enable a multi-step cascade of immune cell capturing, rolling, arrest, and transmigration via the blood endothelial barrier (Table 11). Some trafficking molecules are constitutively expressed and manage the migration of immune cells during homeostasis, while others are specifically upregulated by inflammatory processes such as cancer.

The expression of trafficking molecules important for extravasation is mainly regulated on specialized blood vessels called high endothelial venules (HEVs), which are the entry portals from the circulation into the periphery and are usually present in secondary lymphoid organs (SLOs) and chronically inflamed tissue. Chronically inflamed tissues often develop lymphoid-like structures called ectopic or tertiary lymphoid organs (TLOs) that contain structures resembling SLOs including HEVs, lymphoid stromal cells, and confined compartments of T and B lymphocytes. As they can act as major gateways for immune cell migration into peripheral tissues, TLOs have been shown to be important in the pathogenesis of cancer.

Once within peripheral tissues, four modes of immune cell migration have been observed: 1) chemokinesis: migration driven by soluble chemokines, without concentration gradients to provide directional bias, 2) haptokinesis: migration along surfaces presenting immobilized ligands such as chemokines or integrins, without concentration gradients to provide directional bias, 3) chemotaxis: directional migration driven by concentration gradients of soluble chemokines, and 4) haptotaxis: directional migration along surfaces presenting gradients of immobilized ligands such as chemokines or integrins. The response of immune cells to trafficking molecules present on the endothelium depends on the composition, expression, and/or functional activity of their cognate receptors, which in turn depends on activation state and immune cell subtype.

Innate immune cells generally migrate toward inflammation-induced trafficking molecules in the periphery. In contrast, naïve T and B cells constantly re-circulate between the blood and secondary lymphoid organs to screen for their cognate antigen presented by activated dendritic cells (DCs) or fibroblastic reticular cells (FRCs), respectively. If activated by recognition of their cognate antigen and appropriate co-stimulation within SLOs, both cell types undergo a series of complex maturation steps, including differentiation and proliferation, ultimately leading to effector and memory immune cell phenotypes. To reach their peripheral target sites, certain effector and memory T and B cell subsets egress from SLOs to the blood circulation via efferent lymphatics. In order to do so, they migrate toward a Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) gradient sensed using their Sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 (S1P₁ or S1PR1). For successful egress into efferent lymphatics, immune cells need to overcome SLO retention signals through the CCR7/CCL21 axis or through CD69-mediated downregulation of S1P₁.

Finally, certain immune cell subsets, for example mature dendritic cells (DCs) and memory T cells, migrate from peripheral tissues into SLOs via afferent lymphatics. To exit from peripheral tissues and enter afferent lymphatics, immune cells again largely depend on the CCR7/CCL21 and S1P₁/S1P axis. Specifically, immune cells need to overcome retention signals delivered via the CCR7/CCL21 axis, and migrate toward an S1P gradient established by the lymphatic endothelial cells using S1P₁. The selective action of trafficking molecules on distinct immune cell subsets as well as the distinct spatial and temporal expression patterns of both the ligands and receptors are crucial for the fine-tuning of immune responses during homeostasis and disease.

Aberrant immune cell migration is observed in multiple immune-related pathologies. Immune cell adhesion deficiencies, caused by molecular defects in integrin expression, fucosylation of selectin ligands, or inside-out activation of integrins on leukocytes and platelets, lead to impaired immune cell migration into peripheral tissues. This results in leukocytosis and in increased susceptibility to recurrent bacterial and fungal infections, which can be difficult to treat and potentially life-threatening. Alternatively, exaggerated migration of specific immune cell subsets into specific peripheral tissues is associated with a multitude of pathologies. For example, excessive neutrophil accumulation in peripheral tissues contributes to the development of ischemia-reperfusion injury, such as that observed during acute myocardial infarction, stroke, shock and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Excessive Th1 inflammation characterized by tissue infiltration of interferon-gamma secreting effector T cells and activated macrophages is associated with atherosclerosis, allograft rejection, hepatitis, and multiple autoimmune diseases including multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, Crohn's disease, type 1 diabetes and lupus erythematodes. Excessive Th2 inflammation characterized by tissue infiltration of IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13 secreting Th2 cells, eosinophils and mast cells is associated with asthma, food allergies and atopic dermatitis.

In the context of tumor biology, the balance between effector immune cell infiltrates eliminating tumor cells and suppressive immune cell infiltrates protecting tumor cells is critical in determining the net outcome of tumor development, namely elimination, equilibrium, or escape. The main anti-tumor immune cell subsets are natural killer (NK) cells, γδ T cells, Th1 CD4+ and cytotoxic CD8+ T cells (CTLs), mature dendritic cells (mDCs), and inflammatory macrophages (often referred to as M1 macrophages). The main pro-tumor immune cell subsets are suppressive tumor-associated macrophages (TAM, often referred to as M2 macrophages), myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC), regulatory T cells (Treg), and immature dendritic cells (iDCs). While effector immune cells subsets are generally attracted to migrate into the tumor microenvironment via CXCR3 and its ligands CXCL9, CXCL10 and CXCL11, suppressive immune cell subsets depend on multiple sets of chemokine and chemokine receptors, including CCR2/CCL2, CCR5/CCL5, CXCR1/CXCL8 (IL8), CXCR2/CXCL5, and CXCR4/CXCL12. Accordingly, the upregulation of CXCL9 and CXCL10 within the tumor generally correlates with good prognosis, and upregulation of suppressive chemokines correlates with bad prognosis of cancer patients.

Specific chemokine pathways not only increase the infiltration of immunosuppressive immune cell subsets, but also promote tumor angiogenesis and metastasis and are thus interesting targets for the development of anti-cancer therapies. Inducing T cell migration into tumors might be especially beneficial in the context of cancer immunotherapy, as a T-cell inflamed microenvironment correlates with good response to these types of interventions.

Finally, tumor-draining lymph nodes (tdLNs) are essential gateways for the induction of adaptive immune responses against tumor cells. However, even though tdLNs are exposed to antigens shed by the upstream tumor cells, they often contain more immunosuppressive cytokines and cells than a non-involved lymph node. This is because a multitude of immunosuppressive molecules are secreted by the upstream tumor microenvironment, thus influencing the immune status of the downstream lymph node. Therefore, strategies that could alter immune cell migration into the tumor-draining lymph node could shift the balance between suppressive and effector immune cells in favor of the latter, thus unleashing potent anti-tumor immune responses.

Immune Effects

A variety of in vitro and in vivo assays can be used to determine how a neuromodulating agent affects an immune cell activity. The effect of a neuromodulating agent on T cell polarization in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of cell surface markers on T cells obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and T cells from the sample evaluated for one or more (e.g., 2, 3, or 4 or more) Th1-specific markers: T-bet, IL-12R, STAT4, or chemokine receptors CCR5, CXCR6, and CXCR3; or Th2-specific markers: CCR3, CXCR4, or IL-4Rα. T cell polarization can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to T cells in vitro (e.g., T cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring the aforementioned markers to evaluate T cell polarization. These markers can be assessed using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and other assays that allow for measurement of cellular markers. Comparing results from before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent can be used to determine its effect.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on T cell activation in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of cellular markers on T cells obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and T cells from the sample evaluated for one or more (e.g., 2, 3, 4 or more) activation markers: CD25, CD71, CD26, CD27, CD28, CD30, CD154, CD40L, CD134, CD69, CD62L or CD44. T cell activation can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to T cells in vitro (e.g., T cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring the aforementioned markers to evaluate T cell activation. Similar approaches can be used to assess the effect of a neuromodulating agent on activation of other immune cells, such as eosinophils (markers: CD35, CD11b, CD66, CD69 and CD81), dendritic cells (makers: IL-8, MHC class II, CD40, CD80, CD83, and CD86), basophils (CD63, CD13, CD4, and CD203c), and neutrophils (CD11b, CD35, CD66b and CD63). These markers can be assessed using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and other assays that allow for measurement of cellular markers. Comparing results from before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent can be used to determine its effect.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on immune cell activation can also be assessed through measurement of secreted cytokines and chemokines. An activated immune cell (e.g., T cell, B cell, macrophage, monocyte, dendritic cell, eosinophil, basophil, mast cell, NK cell, or neutrophil) can produce pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines (e.g., IL-16, IL-5, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12, IL-13, IL-18, TNFα, and IFN-γ). Activation can be assessed by measuring cytokine levels in a blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample from a human subject or animal model, with higher levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines following treatment with a neuromodulating agent indicating increased activation, and lower levels indicating decreased activation. Activation can also be assessed in vitro by measuring cytokines secreted into the media by cultured cells. Cytokines can be measured using ELISA, western blot analysis, and other approaches for quantifying secreted proteins. Comparing results from before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent can be used to determine its effect.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on T cell proliferation in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of markers of proliferation in T cells obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and T cells from the sample evaluated for Ki67 marker expression. T cell proliferation can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to T cells in vitro (e.g., T cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring Ki67 to evaluate T cell proliferation. Assessing whether a neuromodulating agent induces T cell proliferation can also be performed by in vivo (e.g., in a human subject or animal model) by collecting blood samples before and after neuromodulating agent administration and comparing T cell numbers, and in vitro by quantifying T cell numbers before and after contacting T cells with a neuromodulating agent. These approaches can also be used to measure the effect of a neuromodulating agent on proliferation of any immune cell (e.g., B cells, T cells, macrophages, monocytes, dendritic cells, NK cells, mast cells, eosinophils, basophils, and neutrophils). Ki67 can be assessed using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and other assays that allow for measurement of nuclear markers. Comparing results from before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent can be used to determine its effect.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on cytotoxic T cell activation in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of T cell granule markers in T cells obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and T cells from the sample evaluated for granzyme or perforin expression. Cytotoxic T cell activation can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to cytotoxic T cells in vitro (e.g., cytotoxic T cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring the aforementioned markers to evaluate T cell proliferation. These markers can be detected in the media from cytotoxic T cell cultures. Techniques including ELISA, western blot analysis can be used to detect granzyme and perforin in conditioned media, flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and other assays can detect intracellular granzyme and perforin and their synthesis. Comparing results from before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent can be used to determine its effect.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on circulating monocytes in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of cell surface markers on primary blood mononuclear cells obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and monocytes from the sample evaluated for CD14 and/or CD16 expression. Circulating monocytes can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can be performed by taking a blood sample before treatment with a neuromodulating agent and comparing it to a blood sample taken after treatment. CD14 and CD16 can be detected using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, western blot analysis, or any other technique that can measure cell surface protein levels. Comparing results from before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent can be used to determine its effect. This assay can be used to detect the number of monocytes in the bloodstream or to determine whether monocytes have adopted a CD14+/CD16+ phenotype, which indicates a pro-inflammatory function.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cells in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of cell surface markers on primary blood mononuclear cells obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and stem cells from the sample evaluated for one or more (2, 3 or 4 or more) specific markers: CD34, c-kit, Sca-1, or Thy1.1. Peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cells can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can be performed by taking a blood sample before treatment with a neuromodulating agent and comparing it to a blood sample taken after treatment. The aforementioned markers can be detected using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, western blot analysis, or any other technique that can measure cell surface protein levels. Comparing results from before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent can be used to determine its effect. This assay can be used to detect the number of stem cells mobilized into the bloodstream or to determine whether treatment induces differentiation into a particular hematopoietic lineage (e.g., decreased CD34 and increased GPA indicates differentiation into red blood cells, decreased CD34 and increased CD14 indicates differentiation into monocytes, decreased CD34 and increased CD11b or CD68 indicates differentiation into macrophages, decreased CD34 and increased CD42b indicates differentiation into platelets, decreased CD34 and increased CD3 indicates differentiation into T cells, decreased CD34 and increased CD19 indicates differentiation into B cells, decreased CD34 and increased CD25 or CD69 indicates differentiation into activated T cells, decreased CD34 and increased CD1c, CD83, CD141, CD209, or MHC II indicates differentiation into dendritic cells, decreased CD34 and increased CD56 indicates differentiation into NK cells, decreased CD34 and increased CD15 indicates differentiation into neutrophils, decreased CD34 and increased 2D7 antigen, CD123, or CD203c indicates differentiation into basophils, and decreased CD34 and increased CD193, EMR1, or Siglec-8 indicates differentiation into eosinophils.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on macrophage polarization in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of cellular markers in macrophages cells obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and macrophages from the sample evaluated for one of more (2, 3 or 4 or more) specific markers. Markers for M1 polarization include IL-12, TNF, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-23, MARCO, MHC-II, CD86, iNOS, CXCL9, and CXCL10. Markers for M2 polarized macrophages include IL-10, IL1-RA, TGFβ, MR, CD163, DC-SIGN, Dectin-1, HO-1, arginase (Arg-1), CCL17, CCL22 and CCL24. Macrophage polarization can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed on cultured macrophages obtained from a subject, an animal model, repository, or commercial source to determine how contacting a macrophage with a neuromodulating agent affects polarization. The aforementioned markers can be evaluated by comparing measurements obtained before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent to a subject, animal model, or cultured cell. Surface markers or intracellular proteins (e.g., MHC-11, CD86, iNOS, CD163, Dectin-1, HO-1, Arg-1, etc.) can be measured using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, or western blot analysis, and secreted proteins (e.g., IL-12, TNF, IL-1β, IL-10, TGFβ, IL1-RA, chemokines CXC8, CXC9, CCL17, CCL22, and CCL24, etc.) can be measured using the same methods or by ELISA or western blot analysis of culture media or blood samples. Comparing results from before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent can be used to determine its effect.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on macrophage phagocytosis in a subject can be assessed by culturing macrophages obtained from the subject with fluorescent beads. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and macrophages from the sample evaluated for engulfment of fluorescent beads. This assay can also be performed on cultured macrophages obtained from an animal model, repository, or commercial source to determine how contacting a macrophage with a neuromodulating agent affects phagocytosis. The same phagocytosis assay can be used to evaluate the effect of a neuromodulating agent on phagocytosis in other immune cells (e.g., neutrophils, monocytes, mast cells, B cells, eosinophils, or dendritic cells). Comparing results from before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent can be used to determine its effect on phagocytosis.

In some embodiments, phagocytosis is ADCP. ADCP can be assessed using similar methods to those described above by incubating immune cells (e.g., macrophages, neutrophils, monocytes, mast cells, B cells, eosinophils, or dendritic cells) isolated from a blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample with fluorescent beads coated with IgG antibodies. In some embodiments, immune cells are incubated with a target cell line that has been pre-coated with antibodies to a surface antigen expressed by the target cell line. ADCP can be evaluated by measuring fluorescence inside the immune cell or quantifying the number of beads or cells engulfed. This assay can also be performed on cultured immune cells obtained from an animal model, repository, or commercial source to determine how contacting an immune cell with a neuromodulating agent affects ADCP. The ability of an immune cell to perform ADCP can also be evaluated by assessing expression of certain Fc receptors (e.g., FcγRIla, FcγRIlla, and FcγRI). Fc receptor expression can be assessed using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, or other assays that allow for measurement of cell surface markers. Comparing phagocytosis or Fc receptor expression before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent can be used to determine its effect on ACDP. In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent increases macrophage ADCP of antibody-coated tumor cells.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on macrophage activation in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of cell surface markers on macrophages cells obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and macrophages from the sample evaluated for one or more (e.g., 1, 2, 3 or 4 or more) specific markers: F4/80, HLA molecules (e.g., MHC-II), CD80, CD68, CD11 b, or CD86. Macrophage activation can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to macrophages in vitro (e.g., macrophages obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring the aforementioned markers to evaluate macrophage activation. These markers can be assessed using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and other assays that allow for measurement of cell surface markers. As mentioned above, macrophage activation can also be evaluated based on cytokine production (e.g., pro-inflammatory cytokine production) as measured by ELISA and western blot analysis. Comparing results from before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent can be used to determine its effect.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on antigen presentation in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of cell surface markers on antigen presenting cells (e.g., dendritic cells, macrophages, and B cells) obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and antigen presenting cells (e.g., dendritic cells, macrophages, and B cells) from the sample evaluated for one or more (e.g., 2, 3 or 4 or more) specific markers: CD11c, CD11b, HLA molecules (e.g., MHC-II), CD40, B7, IL-2, CD80 or CD86. Antigen presentation can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to antigen presenting cells (e.g., dendritic cells) in vitro (e.g., antigen presenting cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring the aforementioned markers to evaluate antigen presentation. These markers can be assessed using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and other assays that allow for measurement of cell surface markers. Comparing results from before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent can be used to determine its effect.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on antigen presenting cell migration in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of cell surface markers on antigen presenting cells (e.g., dendritic cells, B cells, and macrophages) obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and antigen presenting cells (e.g., dendritic cells, B cells, and macrophages) from the sample evaluated for CCR7 expression. Antigen presenting cell migration can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to antigen presenting cells (e.g., dendritic cells, B cells, and macrophages) in vitro (e.g., antigen presenting cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring CCR7 to evaluate antigen presenting cell migration. CCR7 can be assessed using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and other assays that allow for measurement of cell surface markers. Comparing results from before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent can be used to determine its effect.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on lymph node immune cell homing and cell egress in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of cell surface markers on T or B cells obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and T or B cells from the sample evaluated for one or more specific markers: CCR7 or S1PR1. Lymph node immune cell homing and cell egress can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to T or B cells in vitro (e.g., T or B cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring the aforementioned markers to evaluate T or B cell lymph node homing. These markers can also be used to assess lymph node homing and cell egress of dendritic cells and macrophages. CCR7 and S1PR1 can be assessed using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and other assays that allow for measurement of cell surface markers. If using an animal model, lymph nodes or sites of inflammation can be imaged in vivo (e.g., using a mouse that expresses fluorescently labeled T or B cells) or after biopsy to determine whether T or B cell numbers change as a result of administration of a neuromodulating agent. Comparing results from before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent can be used to determine its effect.

In some embodiments, a neuromodulating agent increases homing or decreases egress of naïve T cells into or out of secondary lymphoid organs prior to antigen challenge (e.g., prior to administration of a vaccine) to generate a better antigen-specific response. In some embodiments, a neuromodulating agent decreases homing or increases egress of inflammatory immune cells (e.g., neutrophils) into or out of peripheral tissues during acute infection or injury to prevent conditions such as ischemia-reperfusion disorders. In some embodiments, a neuromodulating agent decreases homing or increases egress of effector immune subsets into or out of peripheral tissues to avoid inflammation-induced tissue damage.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on NK cell activation in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of cell surface markers on NK cells obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and NK cells from the sample evaluated for one or more (e.g., 2, 3 or 4 or more) specific markers: CD117, NKp46, CD94, CD56, CD16, KIR, CD69, HLA-DR, CD38, KLRG1, and TIA-1. NK cell activation can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to NK cells in vitro (e.g., NK cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring the aforementioned markers to evaluate NK cell activation. The effect of a neuromodulating agent can be determined by comparing results from before and after neuromodulating agent administration.

In some embodiments, activated NK cells have increased lytic function or are cytotoxic (e.g., capable of performing ADCC). The effect of a neuromodulating agent on ADCC can be assessed by incubating immune cells capable of ADCC (e.g., NK cells, monocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, eosinophils, dendritic cells, or T cells) with a target cell line that has been pre-coated with antibodies to a surface antigen expressed by the target cell line. ADCC can be assessed by measuring the number of surviving target cells with a fluorescent viability stain or by measuring the secretion of cytolytic granules (e.g., perforin, granzymes, or other cytolytic proteins released from immune cells). Immune cells can be collected from a blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample from a human subject or animal model treated with a neuromodulating agent. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to immune cells in vitro (e.g., immune cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source). The effect of a neuromodulating agent on ADCC can be determined by comparing results from before and after neuromodulating agent administration. In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent increases NK cell ADCC of antibody-targeted tumors.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on mast cell degranulation in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of markers in mast cells obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and mast cells from the sample evaluated for one or more (e.g., 1, 2, 3 or 4 or more) specific markers: IgE, histamine, IL-4, TNFα, CD300a, tryptase, or MMP9. Mast cell degranulation can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to mast cells in vitro (e.g., mast cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring the aforementioned markers to evaluate mast cell degranulation. Some of these markers (e.g., histamine, TNFα, and IL-4) can be detected by measuring levels in the mast cell culture medium after mast cells are contacted with a neuromodulating agent. The effect of a neuromodulating agent can be determined by comparing results from before and after neuromodulating agent administration. This approach can also be used to evaluate the effect of a neuromodulating agent on degranulation by other cells, such as neutrophils (markers: CD11b, CD13, CD18, CD45, CD15, CD66b IL-1β, IL-8, and IL-6), eosinophils (markers: major basic protein (MBP), eosinophil cationic protein (ECP), eosinophil peroxidase (EPX), eosinophil-derived neurotoxin (EDN)), basophils (markers: histamine, heparin, chondroitin, elastase, lysophospholipase, and LTD-4), NK cells (markers: LAMP-1, perforin, and granzymes), and cytotoxic T cells (markers: LAMP-1, perforin, and granzymes). Markers can be detected using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, ELISA, western blot analysis, or in situ hybridization.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on neutrophil recruitment in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of cell surface markers on neutrophils obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and neutrophils from the sample evaluated for one or more (e.g., 1, 2, 3 or 4 or more) specific markers: CD11b, CD14, CD114, CD177, CD354, or CD66. To determine whether neutrophils are being recruited to a specific site (e.g., a site of inflammation or a tumor), the same markers can be measured at the site of inflammation or in a tumor biopsy. Neutrophil recruitment can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to neutrophils in vitro (e.g., neutrophils obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring the aforementioned markers to evaluate neutrophil recruitment. These markers can be assessed using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and other assays that allow for measurement of cell surface markers. The effect of a neuromodulating agent can be determined by comparing results from before and after neuromodulating agent administration.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on eosinophil recruitment in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of cell surface markers on eosinophil obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and eosinophils from the sample evaluated for one or more (e.g., 1, 2, 3 or 4 or more) specific markers: CD15, IL-3R, CD38, CD106, CD294 or CD85G. To determine whether eosinophils are being recruited to a specific site (e.g., a site of inflammation or a tumor), the same markers can be measured at the site of inflammation or in a tumor biopsy. Eosinophil recruitment can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to eosinophils in vitro (e.g., eosinophils obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring the aforementioned markers to evaluate eosinophil recruitment. These markers can be assessed using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and other assays that allow for measurement of cell surface markers. The effect of a neuromodulating agent can be determined by comparing results from before and after neuromodulating agent administration.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on NKT cell activation in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of cell surface markers on NKT cells obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and NKT cells from the sample evaluated for one or more specific markers: CD272 or CD352. Activated NKT cells produce IFN-γ, IL-4, GM-CSF, IL-2, IL-13, IL-17, IL-21 and TNFα. NKT cell activation can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to NKT cells in vitro (e.g., NKT cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring the aforementioned markers to evaluate NKT cell activation. Cell surface markers CD272 and CD352 can be assessed using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and other assays that allow for measurement of cell surface markers. The secreted proteins can be detected in blood samples or cell culture media using ELISA, western blot analysis, or other methods for detecting proteins in solution. The effect of a neuromodulating agent can be determined by comparing results from before and after neuromodulating agent administration.

The effects of a neuromodulating agent on B cell activation in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of cell surface markers on B cells obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and B cells from the sample evaluated for one or more (e.g., 2, 3 or 4 or more) specific markers: CD19, CD20, CD40, CD80, CD86, CD69, IgM, IgD, IgG, IgE, or IgA. B cell activation can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to B cells in vitro (e.g., B cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring the aforementioned markers to evaluate B cell activation. These markers can be assessed using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and other assays that allow for measurement of cell surface markers. The effect of a neuromodulating agent can be determined by comparing results from before and after neuromodulating agent administration.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on regulatory T cell differentiation in a subject can be assessed by evaluation of markers in regulatory T cells obtained from the subject. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected from a subject and regulatory T cells from the sample evaluated for one or more (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4 or more) specific markers: CD4, CD25, or FoxP3. Regulatory T cell differentiation can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to regulatory T cells in vitro (e.g., regulatory T cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring the aforementioned markers to evaluate regulatory T cell differentiation. These markers can be assessed using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and other assays that allow for measurement of cellular markers. The effect of a neuromodulating agent can be determined by comparing results from before and after neuromodulating agent administration.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on innervation of a lymph node or secondary lymphoid organ can be assessed by evaluation of neuronal markers in a lymph node or secondary lymphoid organ biopsy sample obtained from a human subject or animal model. A biopsy can be collected from the subject and evaluated for one or more (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, or 4 or more) neuronal markers selected from: Neurofilament, synapsin, synaptotagmin, or neuron specific enolase. Lymph node innervation can also be assessed using electrophysiological approaches (e.g., recording neuronal activity in a lymph node or secondary lymphoid organ in a human subject or animal model). The effect of a neuromodulating agent can be determined by comparing results from before and after neuromodulating agent administration.

The neuromodulating agent can also reduce the number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or reduce the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue. For example, the method includes administering to the subject (e.g., a human subject or animal model) a neuromodulating agent in an amount and for a time sufficient to reduce the number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or reduce the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue. The affected tissue can be a lymph node, a lymphoid organ, a tumor, a tumor micro-environment, or the bone marrow niche. The number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue can be decreased in the subject at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or more, compared to before the administration. The number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue can be decreased in the subject between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%.

The neuromodulating agent can also increase the number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or increase the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue. For example, the method includes administering to the subject (e.g., a human subject or animal model) a neuromodulating agent in an amount and for a time sufficient to increase the number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or increase the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue. The affected tissue can be a lymph node, a lymphoid organ, a tumor, a tumor micro-environment, or the bone marrow niche. The number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue can be increased in the subject at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% or more, compared to before the administration. The number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue can be increased in the subject between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%.

The nerve fibers that are modulated can be part of the peripheral nervous system, e.g., a somatic nerve, an autonomic nerve, a sensory nerve, a cranial nerve, an optic nerve, an olfactory nerve, a sympathetic nerve, a parasympathetic nerve, a chemoreceptor, a photoreceptor, a mechanoreceptor, a thermoreceptor, a nociceptor, an efferent nerve fiber, or an afferent nerve fiber.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on immune cell cytokine production can be assessed by evaluation of cellular markers in an immune cell sample obtained from a human subject or animal model. A blood sample, lymph node biopsy, or tissue sample can be collected for the subject and evaluated for one or more (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, or 4 or more) cytokine markers selected from: pro-inflammatory cytokines (e.g., IL-1β, IL-5, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12, IL-13, IL-18, TNFα, IFNγ, GMCSF), pro-survival cytokines (e.g., IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-7, and IL-15) and anti-inflammatory cytokines (e.g., IL-4, IL-10, IL-11, IL-13, IFNα, and TGFβ). Some cytokines can function as both pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines depending on context or indication (e.g., IL-4 is often categorized as an anti-inflammatory cytokine, but plays a pro-inflammatory role in mounting an allergic or anti-parasitic immune response). Cytokines can be also detected in the culture media of immune cells contacted with a neuromodulating agent. Cytokines can be detected using ELISA, western blot analysis, or other methods for detecting protein levels in solution. The effect of a neuromodulating agent can be determined by comparing results from before and after neuromodulating agent administration.

In some embodiments, a neuromodulating agent decreases or prevents the development of ectopic or tertiary lymphoid organs (TLOs) to decrease local inflammation. TLOs are highly similar to SLOs and exhibit T and B cell compartmentalization, APCs such as DCs and follicular DCs, stromal cells, and a highly organized vascular system of high endothelial venules. In some embodiments, a neuromodulating agent decreases or prevents the development of high endothelial venules (HEVs) within tertiary lymphoid organs to decrease local inflammation. HEVs can be detected using the monoclonal antibody MECA-79.

In some embodiments, a neuromodulating agent modulates dendritic cell maturation (e.g., activation). Dendritic cell maturation can be increased to promote their migration from peripheral tissues into secondary lymphoid organs to improve T cell activation in the draining lymph node (e.g., to increase vaccine efficacy or to increase priming of an anti-tumor immune response). Dendritic cell maturation can be decreased to decrease their migration from peripheral tissues into secondary lymphoid organs to inhibit T cell activation in the draining lymph node.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on immune cell recruitment or migration to a tumor can be assessed by evaluation of cellular markers on immune cells obtained from a human subject or animal model. A blood sample or tumor biopsy can be collected from a human subject or animal model and T cells, B cells, dendritic cells, or macrophages can be evaluated for marker CCR7. Immune cell recruitment to a tumor can also be assessed by taking a tumor biopsy before and after administration of a neuromodulating agent to a human subject or animal model and quantifying the number of immune cells in the tumor. Immune cells can be identified based on the markers described above and others listed in Table 9. A bulk gene expression signature can also be deconvolved into signatures indicative of specific immune cell types using published algorithms, such as the CIBERSORT algorithm described in Gentles et al, Nature Medicine 21:938 2015. Mouse models of cancer that express fluorescent reporters in immune cells can also be used for live imaging-based approaches to evaluate the effect of a neuromodulating agent on immune cell migration or recruitment to a tumor. Immune cell recruitment or migration to a tumor can also be assessed by adding a neuromodulating agent to immune cells in vitro (e.g., immune cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring CCR7 to evaluate immune cell migration or recruitment. The effect of a neuromodulating agent can be determined by comparing results from before and after neuromodulating agent administration.

In some embodiments, a neuromodulating agent increases homing or decreases egress of naïve T cells into or out of secondary lymphoid organs prior to inducing immunogenic tumor cell death to generate a better anti-tumor response (e.g., prior to radio- or chemotherapy). In some embodiments, a neuromodulating agent increases homing or decreases egress of immune cells into or out of the tumor microenvironment to turn a “cold tumor” into a “hot tumor” prior to immunotherapy. In some embodiments, a neuromodulating agent increases homing or decreases egress of effector immune cell subsets into or out of the tumor microenvironment to promote anti-tumor immunity. In some embodiments, a neuromodulating agent decreases homing or increases egress of immunosuppressive immune subsets into or out of the tumor microenvironment to promote anti-tumor immunity. In some embodiments, a neuromodulating agent induces or increases the development of high endothelial venules (HEVs) within the tumor microenvironment to increase TIL recruitment. HEVs can be detected using the monoclonal antibody MECA-79. In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent induces or increases the development of ectopic or tertiary lymphoid organs (TLOs) within the tumor microenvironment to increase TIL recruitment. TLOs can be recognized by their similarity to SLOs, as they exhibit T and B cell compartmentalization, APCs such as DCs and follicular DCs, stromal cells, and a highly organized vascular system of HEVs.

The effect of a neuromodulating agent on NK cell lytic function can be assessed by evaluation of cellular markers on NK cells obtained from a human subject or animal model. A blood sample or tumor biopsy can be collected from a human subject or animal model and NK cells can be evaluated for one or more (e.g., 1, 2, 3 or more) of the markers: CD95L, CSD154, and CD253. NK cell lytic function can also be assessed using the same methods in an in vivo animal model. This assay can also be performed by adding a neuromodulating agent to NK cells in vitro (e.g., NK cells obtained from a subject, animal model, repository, or commercial source) and measuring the aforementioned markers to evaluate NK cell activation. These markers can be assessed using flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and other assays that allow for measurement of cell surface markers. The effect of a neuromodulating agent can be determined by comparing results from before and after neuromodulating agent administration.

Table 9 lists additional markers and relevant assays that may be used to assess the level, function and/or activity of immune cells in the methods described herein.

TABLE 9 ASSESSMENT OF IMMUNE CELL PHENOTYPES ASSOCIATED IMMUNE CELL CYTOKINES MARKER ASSAYS Th1 helper IFN-γ CD4 ELISPOT IL-2 CD94 In situ hybridization IL-12 CD119 Immunohistochemistry IL-18 (IFNγ R1) Limiting dilution Analysis IL-27 CD183 Single-cell PCR TNFα (CXCR3) In vivo capture assay TNFβ/LTα CD186 ELISA (CXCR6) Flow cytometry CD191 (CCR1) CD195 (CCR5) CD212 (IL- 12Rβ1&2) CD254 (RANKL) CD278 (ICOS) IL-18R MRP1 NOTCH3 TCR TIM3 Th2 helper IL-4 CD4 ELISPOT IL-2 CD30 In situ hybridization IL-6 CD119 Immunohistochemistry IL-33 (IFNγ R1) Limiting dilution IL-17E (IL-25) CD184 Analysis IL-31 (CXCR4) Single-cell PCR IL-3 CD185 In vivo capture IL-10 (CXCR5) assay IL-13 CD193 ELISA (CCR3) Flow cytometry CD194 (CCR4) CD197 (CCR7) CD278 (ICOS) CD294 (CRTh2) CDw198 (CCR8) IL-17RB IL-33Rα (ST2) NOTCH1 NOTCH2 TCR TIM1 Th17 helper TGFβ1 CD4 ELISPOT IL-1β CD27 In situ hybridization IL-6 CD62L Immunohistochemistry IL-21 CD127 (IL- Limiting dilution IL-23 7R) Analysis IL-17A CD161 Single-cell PCR IL-17F CD184 In vivo capture IL-22 (CXCR4) assay IL-26 CD194 ELISA GM-CSF (CCR4) Flow cytometry MIP-3α CD196 TNFα (CCR6) CD197 (CCR7) CD212b1 (IL-12Rβ1) CD213a1 (IL-13Rα1) CD278 (ICOS) IL-1R1 IL-21R IL-23R Treg TGFβ1 CD4 ELISPOT IL-2 CD25 In situ hybridization IL-10 CD39 Immunohistochemistry IL-35 CD73 Limiting dilution CD45RO Analysis CD121a (IL- Single-cell PCR 1R1) In vivo capture CD121b (IL- assay 1R2) ELISA CD127low Flow cytometry CD134 (OX40) CD137 (4- 1BB) CD152 (CTLA-4) CD357 (GITR/AITR) Foxp3 FR4 (m) GARP (activated) Helios LAP/TGFβ (activated) TIGIT Dendritic cell GM-CSF CD1a ELISPOT IFNγ CD8 In situ hybridization IL-4 CD11c Immunohistochemistry GM-CSF CD80 Limiting dilution IFNα CD83 Analysis IL-1α CD85 (ILT) family Single-cell PCR IL-1β CD86 In vivo capture IL-6 CD141 (h) assay IL-8 CD169 ELISA IL-10 CD172 Flow cytometry IL-12 CD184 (CXCR4) IL-15 CD197 (CCR7) IL-18 CD205 IL-23 CD206 IL-27 CD207 IP-10 CD209 M-CSF CD215 (IL-15R) RANTES (CCL5) CD282 (TLR2) TGFβ CD284 (TLR4) TNFα CD286 (TLR6) Clec Family Macrophages/ FLT3 Ligand CD11b ELISPOT Monocytes GM-CSF CD14 (mono) In situ hybridization M-CSF CD16 Immunohistochemistry CXCL9 CD32 Limiting dilution CXCL10 CD68 Analysis CXCL11 CD85a (ILT5) Single-cell PCR G-CSF CD163 In vivo capture GM-CSF CD169 assay IFNβ CD195 (CCR5) ELISA IL-1α CD204 Flow cytometry IL-1β CD206 IL-6 CD282 (TLR2) IL-8 CD284 (TLR4) IL-10 CD286 (TLR6) IL-12p40 & p70 CD354 (Trem-1) IL-18 Clec Family IL-23 F4/80 (m) IL-27 HLA-DR M-CSF MIP-2α (CXCL2) RANTES (CCL5) TNFα Natural Killer Cell IL-2 CD16 ELISPOT IL-12 CD25 In situ hybridization IL-15/IL-15R CD49b Immunohistochemistry IL-18 CD56 (h) Limiting dilution Granzyme B CD94 Analysis IL-17A CD158 family (KIR) Single-cell PCR IL-22 (h) In vivo capture MIP-1α (CCL3) CD181 (CXCR1) assay MIP-1β (CCL4) CD183 (CXCR3) ELISA Perforin CD184 (CXCR4) Flow cytometry RANTES (CCL5) CD186 (CXCR6) TNFα CD192 (activated) CD195 (CCR5) CD197 (CCR7) CD212 (IL-12R) CD244 CD314 (NKG2D) CX3CR1 Eomes KLRG1 Ly49 family (m) NK1.1 NKG2A NKp30 NKp42 NKp44 (h) NKp46 T-bet Activated B Antibodies CD19 Flow cytometry cell/Plasma cells IgM CD25 IgG CD30 IgD IgM IgE CD19 IgA IgG CD27 CD38 CD78 CD138 CD319

TABLE 10 EXAMPLES OF HUMAN CHEMOKINES Systematic Human Alternate Human receptor(s) and Known name gene human Names Expression their expression functions C family XCL1 XCL1 Lymphotactin, Activated CD8+ T XCR1: cross-presenting Migration and SCM-1 alpha, cells and other drendritic cells activation of ATAC MHCI restricted T lymphocytes, cells NK cells XCL2 XCL2 SCM-1 beta Expressed in XCR1: cross-presenting Migration and activated T cells drendritic cells activation of lymphocytes, NK cells Cx3c family CX3CL1 CX3CL1 Fractalkine, Brain, heart, lung, CX3CR1: lymphocytes, Migration and Neurotactin, kidney, skeletal monocytes adhesion of ABCD-3 muscle and testis. lymphocytes Up-regulated in and monocytes endothelial cells and microglia by inflammation Cc family CCL1 CCL1 I-309 Activated T cells CCR8: natural killer Migration of cells, monocytes and monocytes, NK lymphocytes cells, immature DARC: erytrocytes, B cells and endothelial and epithelial dcs cells CCL2 CCL2 MCP-1, Monocytes, CCR2: monocytes Migration of MCAF, HC11 macrophages and CCR4: lymphocytes monocytes and dendritic cells, CCR11: unkown basophils activated NK cells D6: lymphocytes, lymphatic endothelial cells, macrophages DARC: erytrocytes, endothelial and epithelial cells CCL3 CCL3 MIP-1 alpha, T cells, B cells, and CCR1: lymphocytes, Adhesion of LD78 alpha, monocytes after monocytes, airway lymphocytes GOS19, antigen or mitogen smooth muscle cells Pat464 stimulation CCR4: lymphocytes CCR5: T cells, macrophages, dendritic cells, eosinophils and microglia D6: lymphocytes, lymphatic endothelial cells, macrophages CCL3L1 CCL3L1 LD78 beta Unknown CCR1: lymphocytes, Migration of monocytes, airway lymphocytes smooth muscle cells and monocytes CCR3: eosinophils, basophils, Th2 cells, CD34+ hematopoetic progenitors, keratinocytes, mast cells CCR5: T cells, macrophages, dendritic cells, eosinophils and microglia D6: lymphocytes, lymphatic endothelial cells, macrophages CCL3L3 CCL3L3 LD78 beta Unknown CCR1: lymphocytes, Migration of monocytes, airway lymphocytes smooth muscle cells and monocytes CCR3: eosinophils, basophils, Th2 cells, CD34+ hematopoetic progenitors, keratinocytes, mast cells CCR5: T cells, macrophages, dendritic cells, eosinophils and microglia CCL4 CCL4 MIP-1 beta, Macrophages, CCR1: lymphocytes, Migration and AT744.1, dendritic cells monocytes, airway adhesion of ACT-2, G-26, smooth muscle cells lymphocytes, HC21, H400, CCR5: T cells, regulatory T MAD-5, LAG-1 macrophages, dendritic cells, NK cells, cells, eosinophils and monocyrtes microglia CCR8: natural killer cells, monocytes and lymphocytes D6: lymphocytes, lymphatic endothelial cells, macrophages CCL4L1 CCL4L1 AT744.2 Macrophages, CCR1: lymphocytes, CCR1 and dendritic cells monocytes, airway CCR5 smooth muscle cells expressing CCR5: T cells, cells macrophages, dendritic cells, eosinophils and microglia CCL4L2 CCL4L2 Macrophages, CCR1: lymphocytes, CCR1 and dendritic cells monocytes, airway CCR5 smooth muscle cells expressing CCR5: T cells, cells macrophages, dendritic cells, eosinophils and microglia CCL5 CCL5 RANTES T cells, CCR1: lymphocytes, Migration of macrophages, monocytes, airway monocytes, platelets, synovial smooth muscle cells memory T fibroblasts, tubular CCR3: eosinophils, helper cells and epithelium, certain basophils, Th2 cells, eosinophils, types of tumor cells CD34+ hematopoetic causes the progenitors, release of keratinocytes, mast cells histamine from CCR4: lymphocytes basophils and CCR5: T cells, activates macrophages, dendritic eosinophils cells, eosinophils and microglia D6: lymphocytes, lymphatic endothelial cells, macrophages DARC: erytrocytes, endothelial and epithelial cells CCL7 CCL7 MCP-3 Macrophages, CCR1: lymphocytes, Migration of certain types of monocytes, airway monocytes, tumor cells smooth muscle cells activation of CCR2: monocytes macrophages CCR3: eosinophils, basophils, Th2 cells, CD34+ hematopoetic progenitors, keratinocytes, mast cells D6: lymphocytes, lymphatic endothelial cells, macrophages DARC: erytrocytes, endothelial and epithelial cells CCL8 CCL8 MCP-2, HC14 Fibroblasts, CCR1: lymphocytes, Migration of endothelial cells monocytes, airway monocytes, smooth muscle cells lymphocytes, CCR2: monocytes basophils and CCR3: eosinophils, eosinophils basophils, Th2 cells, CD34+ hematopoetic progenitors, keratinocytes, mast cells CCR5: T cells, macrophages, dendritic cells, eosinophils and microglia CCR11: unkown D6: lymphocytes, lymphatic endothelial cells, macrophages DARC: erytrocytes, endothelial and epithelial cells CCL11 CCL11 Eotaxin Lung epithelial cells, CCR3: eosinophils, Migration and pleural mesothelial basophils, Th2 cells, activation of cells, bronchial CD34+ hematopoetic inflammatory airway epithelial progenitors, leukocytes, cells, smooth keratinocytes, mast cells particularly muscle cells CCR5: T cells, eosinophils macrophages, dendritic cells, eosinophils and microglia D6: lymphocytes, lymphatic endothelial cells, macrophages DARC: erytrocytes, endothelial and epithelial cells CCL12 Stromal cells in lung CCR2: monocytes Migration and and secondary activation of lymphoid organs monocytes CCL13 CCL13 MCP-4, CK Synovial fibroblasts, CCR1: lymphocytes, Migration of beta 10, chondrocytes monocytes, airway eosinophils, NCC-1 smooth muscle cells monocytes and CCR2: monocytes T lymphocytes CCR3: eosinophils, basophils, Th2 cells, CD34+ hematopoetic progenitors, keratinocytes, mast cells CCR5: T cells, macrophages, dendritic cells, eosinophils and microglia CCR11: unkown D6: lymphocytes, lymphatic endothelial cells, macrophages DARC: erytrocytes, endothelial and epithelial cells CCL14 CCL14 HCC-1, Spleen, bone CCR1: lymphocytes, Activation of MCIF, CK marrow, liver, monocytes, airway monocytes beta 1, NCC-2 muscle and gut smooth muscle cells CCR3: eosinophils, basophils, Th2 cells, CD34+ hematopoetic progenitors, keratinocytes, mast cells CCR5: T cells, macrophages, dendritic cells, eosinophils and microglia D6: lymphocytes, lymphatic endothelial cells, macrophages DARC: erytrocytes, endothelial and epithelial cells CCL15 CCL15 MIP-1 delta, Airway smooth CCR1: lymphocytes, Migration of LKN-1, HCC-2, muscle cells, lung monocytes, airway monocytes and MIP-5, NCC-3 leukocytes, alveolar smooth muscle cells eosinophils, macrophages, CCR3: eosinophils, proliferation of basophils basophils, Th2 cells, CD34 myeloid CD34+ hematopoetic progenitor cells progenitors, keratinocytes, mast cells CCL16 CCL16 HCC-4, LEC, Liver, thymus, and CCR1: lymphocytes, Migration of ILINCK, spleen monocytes, airway lymphocytes NCC-4, LMC, smooth muscle cells and monocytes CK beta 12 CCR2: monocytes CCR5: T cells, macrophages, dendritic cells, eosinophils and microglia CCR8: natural killer cells, monocytes and lymphocytes DARC: erytrocytes, endothelial and epithelial cells H4: bone marrow, eosinophils, T-cells, dendritic cells, monocytes, mast cells, neutrophil CCL17 CCL17 TARC, constitutively CCR4: lymphocytes Migration and ABCD-2 expressed in CCR8: natural killer activation of T thymus, dendritic cells, monocytes and cells cells, keratinocytes lymphocytes D6: lymphocytes, lymphatic endothelial cells, macrophages DARC: erytrocytes, endothelial and epithelial cells CCL18 CCL18 PARC, DC-CK1, Dendritic cells, CCR8: natural killer Migration of AMAC-1, monocytes, and cells, monocytes and naive and CK beta 7, macrophages lymphocytes regulatory MIP-4 PITPNM3: breast cancer lymphocytes, cells dendritic cells DARC: erytrocytes, endothelial and epithelial cells CCL19 CCL19 MIP-3 beta, Fibroblastic reticular CCR7: lymphocytes Migration of ELC, Exodus-3, cells, dendritic cells (mainly naive and naive and CK beta 11 memory), mature memory dendritic cells lymphocytes CCR11: unkown and mature CCRL2: neutrophils, dendritic cells monocytes CCL20 CCL20 MIP-3 alpha, Epidermis CCR6: immature Migration of LARC, (keratinocytes), dendritic cells and lymphocytes, Exodus-1, lymphocytes memory T cells dcs and ST38, CK neutrophils beta 4 CCL21 CCL21 6Ckine, Stromal cells, CCR7: lymphocytes Migration of Exodus-2, lymphatic (mainly naive and lymphocytes SLC, TCA-4, endothelial cells, memory), mature homing to CK beta 9 fibroblastic reticular dendritic cells secondary cells, dendritic cells CCR11: unkown lymphoid organs, induces integrin- mediated lymphocyte adhesion CCL22 CCL22 MDC Macrophages CCR4: lymphocytes Migration of NK D6: lymphocytes, cells, lymphatic endothelial chronically cells, macrophages activated T cells, monocytes and dcs CCL23 CCL23 MPIF-1, CK Monocytes CCR1: lymphocytes, Migration of beta 8, CK monocytes monocytes, beta 8-1, FPRL-1: monocytes, resting T cells MIP-3 mast cells and neutrophils CCL24 CCL24 Eotaxin-2, Lung tissue CCR3: eosinophils, Migration of MPIF-2, CK basophils, Th2 cells, basophils beta 6 CD34+ hematopoetic progenitors, keratinocytes, mast cells CCL25 CCL25 TECK, CK Thymic dendritic cells CCR9: T lymphocytes of Migration of beta 15 and mucosal small intestine dendritic cells, epithelial cells thymocytes and activated macrophages CCL26 CCL26 Eotaxin-3, Heart, lung and CCR3: eosinophils, Migration of MIP-4 alpha, ovary and in basophils, Th2 cells, eosinophils and IMAC, TSC-1 endothelial cells CD34+ hematopoetic basophils stimulated with IL4 progenitors, keratinocytes, mast cells CX3CR1: lymphocytes, monocytes CCL27 CCL27 CTACK, ILC, Keratinocytes CCR10: melanocytes, Migration of PESKY, plasma cells and memory T cells ESKINE skin- homing T cells CCL28 CCL28 MEC Columnar epithelial CCR3: eosinophils, Migration of cells in the gut, lung, basophils, Th2 T cells, lymphocytes breast and the CD34+ hematopoetic and eosinophils salivary glands progenitors, keratinocytes, mast cells CCR10: melanocytes, plasma cells and skin-homing T cells Cxc Family CXCL1 CXCL1 GRO alpha, Mammary, CXCR2 (IL8RB): Migration of MGSA, fibroblasts, neutrophils neutrophils GRO1, NAP-3 mammary epithelial DARC: erytrocytes, cells, endothelial endothelial and epithelial cells, activated, cells monocytes, macrophages and neutrophils CXCL2 CXCL2 GRO beta, Monocytes, CXCR2 (IL8RB): Migration and MIP-2 alpha, macrophages neutrophils activation of GRO2 DARC: erytrocytes, neutrophils, endothelial and epithelial basophils, cells hematopoietic stem cells CXCL3 CXCL3 GRO gamma, Smooth muscle CXCR2 (IL8RB): Migration and MIP-2 beta, cells, epithelial cells neutrophils activation of GRO3 DARC: erytrocytes, neutrophils endothelial and epithelial cells CXCL4 PF4 PF4 Activated platelets, CXCR3 (CD183b): T Migration of megakaryocytes, cells, NK cells neutrophils and leukocytes, CXCR3-B: T cells, NK fibroblasts, endothelial cells cells inhibiting DARC: erytrocytes, endothelial cell endothelial and epithelial proliferation cells and chemotaxis CXCL4L1 PF4V1 PF4V1 Smooth muscle CXCR3 (CD183b): T Inhibiting cells, T cells, and cells, NK cells endothelial cell platelets CXCR3-B: T cells, NK proliferation cells and chemotaxis CXCL5 CXCL5 ENA-78 Fibroblasts, epithelial CXCR2 (IL8RB): Migration and cells, eosinophils neutrophils activation of DARC: erytrocytes, neutrophils endothelial and epithelial cells CXCL6 CXCL6 GCP-2 Fibroblasts, epithelial CXCR1 (IL8RA): Migration of cells neutrophils neutrophils CXCR2 (IL8RB): neutrophils DARC: erytrocytes, endothelial and epithelial cells CXCL7 PPBP NAP-2, Activated platelets CXCR1 (IL8RA): Migration of CTAPIII, neutrophils neutrophils beta-TG CXCR2 (IL8RB): neutrophils CXCL8 IL8 IL-8, NAP-1, Macrophages, CXCR1 (IL8RA): Migration of MDNCF, epithelial cells, neutrophils neutrophils, GCP-1 airway smooth CXCR2 (IL8RB): basophils, and muscle cells, neutrophils T-cells, and endothelial cells DARC: erytrocytes, angiogenic endothelial and epithelial factor cells CXCL9 CXCL9 MIG, CRG-10 Monocytes, CXCR3 (CD183b): T Migration of macrophages and cells, NK cells Th1 endothelial cells CXCR3-B: T cells, NK lymphocytes, cells angiogenic DARC: erytrocytes, factor endothelial and epithelial cells CXCL10 CXCL10 IP-10 Neutrophils, CXCR3 (CD183b): T Migration of hepatocytes, cells, NK cells CD4+ T cells endothelial cells and CXCR3-B: T cells, NK keratinocytes cells DARC: erytrocytes, endothelial and epithelial cells CXCL11 CXCL11 I-TAC, beta- Peripheral blood CXCR3 (CD183b): T Migration of R1, H174, IP-9 leukocytes, cells, NK cells interleukin-activated pancreas and liver CXCR7 (ACKR3): tumor T cells but not astrocytes and at cells and tumor-associated unstimulated T moderate levels in blood endothelium cells, thymus, spleen and DARC: erytrocytes, neutrophils or lung endothelial and epithelial monocytes. cells CXCL12 CXCL12 SDF-1, PBSF Ubiquitously CXCR4: brain, heart, Migration of expressed in many lymphocytes, HSCs, lymphocytes tissues and cell blood endothelial cells and types and umbilical cord hepatopoietic endothelial cell stem cells, CXCR7 (ACKR3): tumor angiogenic cells and tumor- associated factor blood endothelium CXCL13 CXCL13 BCA-1, BLC Follicles of the CXCR3 (CD183b): T Migration of B spleen, lymph cells, NK cells cells nodes, and Peyer's CXCR5: Burkitt's patches lymphoma, lymph node follicules, spleen DARC: erytrocytes, endothelial and epithelial cells CXCL14 CXCL14 BRAK, BMAC Fibroblasts unknown Migration of monocytes, NK cells, dcs CXCL16 CXCL16 SR-PSOX Dcs CXCR6: T cells migration of several subsets of T cells and NKT cells CXCL17 CXCL17 DMC, VCC-1 Lung and tumor unknown Migration of tissue dcs and monocytes

TABLE 11 EXAMPLES OF HUMAN IMMUNE CELL TRAFFICKING MOLECULES Trafficking molecule Trafficking expressing or Function in the extravasation molecule presenting cells Leukocyte ligand cascade P-selectin Blood endothelial cell PSGL-1, L-selectin, Tethering/Rolling during CD44 extravasation cascade E-selectin Blood endothelial cell Glycoprotein, Tethering/Rolling during glycolipid, PSGL-1 extravasation cascade PNAd Blood endothelial cell L-selectin Tethering/Rolling during extravasation cascade MAdCAM Blood endothelial cell L-selectin, integrins Tethering/Rolling, arrest during extravasation cascade VCAM-1 Blood endothelial cell Integrins Tethering/Rolling, arrest during (e.g. VLA-4) extravasation cascade Chemokines Blood endothelial cell GPCRs Integrin activation, allowing binding of cell adhesion molecules and arrest ICAM-1 Blood endothelial cell Integrins Arrest during extravasation cascade (e.g. LFA-1, Mac-1) ICAM-2 Blood endothelial cell Integrins Arrest during extravasation cascade (e.g. LFA-1, Mac-1) PECAM1 Blood endothelial cell Integrins Transmigration (CD31) (e.g. alpha v beta 3), PECAM1 JAM-A/-B/-C Blood endothelial cell Integrins Transmigration (e.g. LFA-1, Mac-1, VLA-4) ESAM Blood endothelial cell unknown Transmigration CD99 Blood endothelial cell CD99 Transmigration CD99L2 Blood endothelial cell possibly CD99L Transmigration VE-cadherin Blood endothelial cell none Transmigration PVR Blood endothelial cell DNAM1 Transmigration S1P Lymphatic endothelial S1P receptor 1 Entry into afferent and efferent cell (S1P1) lymphatics (in peripheral or SLOs respectively)

The methods described herein can be used to treat cancer in a subject by administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent, e.g., a neuromodulating agent described herein. The method may include administering locally (e.g., intratumorally) to the subject a neuromodulating agent described herein in a dose (e.g., effective amount) and for a time sufficient to treat the cancer.

The methods described herein can also be used to potentiate or increase an immune response in a subject in need thereof, e.g., an anti-tumor immune response. For example, the subject has cancer, such as a cancer described herein. The methods described herein can also include a step of selecting a subject in need of potentiating an immune response, e.g., selecting a subject who has cancer or is at risk of developing cancer.

The neuromodulating agent may inhibit proliferation or disrupt the function of non-neural cells associated with the cancer, e.g., the method includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent for a time sufficient to inhibit proliferation or disrupt the function of non-neural cells associated with the cancer. Non-neural cells associated with the cancer include malignant cancer cells, malignant cancer cells in necrotic and hypoxic areas, Natural Killer cells, Natural Killer T cells, macrophages, tumor associated macrophages, TH1 helper cells, TH2 helper cells, CD8 cytotoxic T cells, TH17 cells, T regulatory cells, tumor associated neutrophils, terminally differentiated myeloid dendritic cells, myeloid derived suppressor cells, T lymphocytes, adipocytes, B lymphocytes, B10 cells, Breg cells, lymphatic endothelial cells, pericytes, endothelial cells, cancer associated fibroblasts, fibroblasts, dendritic cells, mesenchymal stem cells, red blood cells, or extracellular matrix. The proliferation of non-neural cells associated with the cancer may be decreased in the subject at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or more, compared to before the administration. The proliferation of non-neural cells associated with the cancer can be decreased in the subject between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%.

The neuromodulating agent can be administered in an amount sufficient to treat cancer. For example, the stroma associated with the tumor, e.g., fibroblasts, is disrupted such that an essential function, e.g., the production of matrix metalloproteases, is altered to inhibit tumor survival or promote tumor control.

The neuromodulating agent can have one or more of the following activities: (a) inhibits an immune checkpoint, (b) activates anti-tumor immune response, (c) activate tumor-specific T cells from draining lymph nodes, and/or (d) stimulates a neoantigen-specific immune response. The activity can be modulated as appropriate in the subject (e.g., a human subject or animal model) at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or more, compared to before the administration. The activity can be modulated as appropriate in the subject between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%.

The neuromodulating agent can treat cancer by increasing cancer cell death in a subject (e.g., a human subject or animal model) or in a cancer cell culture (e.g., a culture generated from a patient tumor sample, a cancer cell line, or a repository of patient samples). A neuromodulating agent can increase cancer cell death by at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or more compared to before administration to a subject or cancer cell culture. A neuromodulating agent can increase cancer cell death in a subject or cancer cell culture between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%.

The neuromodulating agent can also act to inhibit cancer cell growth, proliferation, metastasis, or invasion, e.g., the method includes administering to the subject (e.g., a human subject or animal model) or a cancer cell culture (e.g., a culture generated from a patient tumor sample, a cancer cell line, or a repository of patient samples) a neuromodulating agent in an amount (e.g., an effective amount) and for a time sufficient to inhibit cancer cell growth, proliferation, metastasis, or invasion. Cancer cell growth, proliferation, metastasis, or invasion can be decreased in the subject or cancer cell culture at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or more, compared to before the administration Cancer cell growth, proliferation, metastasis, or invasion can be decreased in the subject or cancer cell culture between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%.

The neuromodulating agent can inhibit cancer cell invasion or metastasis along a nerve, e.g., the method includes administering to the subject (e.g., a human subject or animal model) a neuromodulating agent in an amount (e.g., an effective amount) and for a time sufficient to inhibit cancer cell invasion or metastasis along a nerve. For example, the neuromodulating agent is an antibody against a ligand selected from: Galanin; Semaphorin-4F; Caveolin-1; a chemokine such as CCL2, CCR2, CXCL12, and CXCR4; GDNF; GFRα1; NGF; neurotrophin-3 or -4; substance P; Neuropeptide Y; Peptide YY; Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP); or NCAM1. In other examples, the neuromodulating agent can be a receptor antagonist against the receptor for a ligand selected from: Galanin; Semaphorin-4F; Caveolin-1; a chemokine such as CCL2, CCR2, CXCL12, and CXCR4; GDNF; GFRα1; NGF; neurotrophin-3 or -4; substance P; Neuropeptide Y; Peptide YY; Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP); or NCAM1. The neuromodulating can decrease cancer cell invasion or metastasis along a nerve in the subject at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or more, compared to before the administration. The neuromodulating agent can decrease cancer cell invasion or metastasis along a nerve in the subject between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%.

The neuromodulating agent can also reduce the number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or reduce the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue. For example, the method includes administering to the subject (e.g., a human subject or animal model) a neuromodulating agent in an amount (e.g., an effective amount) and for a time sufficient to reduce the number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or reduce the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue. The affected tissue can be a tumor, a tumor micro-environment, or the bone marrow niche. The number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue can be decreased in the subject at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or more, compared to before the administration. The number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue can be decreased in the subject between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%.

The neuromodulating agent can also increase the number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or increase the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue. For example, the method includes administering to the subject (e.g., a human subject or animal model) a neuromodulating agent in an amount (e.g., an effective amount) and for a time sufficient to increase the number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or increase the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue. The affected tissue can be a tumor, a tumor micro-environment, or the bone marrow niche. The number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue can be increased in the subject at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% or more, compared to before the administration. The number of nerve fibers in the affected tissue or the activity of peripheral nerve fibers in the affected tissue can be increased in the subject between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%.

The nerve fibers that are modulated can be part of the peripheral nervous system, e.g., a somatic nerve, an autonomic nerve, a sensory nerve, a cranial nerve, an optic nerve, an olfactory nerve, a sympathetic nerve, a parasympathetic nerve, a chemoreceptor, a photoreceptor, a mechanoreceptor, a thermoreceptor, a nociceptor, an efferent nerve fiber, or an afferent nerve fiber.

IV. Cancer

In the methods described herein relating to cancer, the cancer or neoplasm may be any solid or liquid cancer and includes benign or malignant tumors, and hyperplasias, including gastrointestinal cancer (such as non-metastatic or metastatic colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, hepatocellular cancer, cholangiocellular cancer, oral cancer, lip cancer); urogenital cancer (such as hormone sensitive or hormone refractory prostate cancer, renal cell cancer, bladder cancer, penile cancer); gynecological cancer (such as ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, endometrial cancer); lung cancer (such as small-cell lung cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer); head and neck cancer (e.g., head and neck squamous cell cancer); CNS cancer including malignant glioma, astrocytomas, retinoblastomas and brain metastases; malignant mesothelioma; non-metastatic or metastatic breast cancer (e.g., hormone refractory metastatic breast cancer); skin cancer (such as malignant melanoma, basal and squamous cell skin cancers, Merkel Cell Carcinoma, lymphoma of the skin, Kaposi Sarcoma); thyroid cancer; bone and soft tissue sarcoma; and hematologic neoplasias (such as multiple myeloma, acute myelogenous leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma).

Additional examples of cancers that can be treated according to the methods described herein include breast cancer, lung cancer, stomach cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer, renal cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer, anal cancer, vulvar cancer, penile cancer, vaginal cancer, testicular cancer, pelvic cancer, thyroid cancer, uterine cancer, rectal cancer, brain cancer, head and neck cancer, esophageal cancer, bronchus cancer, gallbladder cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer, oral cancer, oropharyngeal cancer, larynx cancer, biliary tract cancer, skin cancer, a cancer of the central nervous system, a cancer of the respiratory system, and a cancer of the urinary system. Examples of breast cancers include, but are not limited to, triple-negative breast cancer, triple-positive breast cancer, HER2-negative breast cancer, HER2-positive breast cancer, estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer, progesterone receptor-positive breast cancer, progesterone receptor-negative breast cancer, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), invasive ductal carcinoma, invasive lobular carcinoma, inflammatory breast cancer, Paget disease of the nipple, and phyllodes tumor.

Other examples of cancers that can be treated according to the methods described herein include leukemia (e.g., B-cell leukemia, T-cell leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia (AML), chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), acute lymphocytic (lymphoblastic) leukemia (ALL), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and erythroleukemia), sarcoma (e.g., angiosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, fibrosarcoma, gastrointestinal stromal tumor, leiomyosarcoma, liposarcoma, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, malignant fibrous cytoma, osteosarcoma, pleomorphic sarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, synovial sarcoma, vascular sarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, dermatofibrosarcoma, epithelioid sarcoma, leyomyosarcoma, and neurofibrosarcoma), carcinoma (e.g., basal cell carcinoma, large cell carcinoma, small cell carcinoma, non-small cell lung carcinoma, renal carcinoma, hepatocarcinoma, gastric carcinoma, choriocarcinoma, adenocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, giant (or oat) cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, adenosquamous carcinoma, anaplastmic carcinoma, adrenocortical carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, Merkel cell carcinoma, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), and invasive ductal carcinoma), blastoma (e.g., hepatoblastoma, medulloblastoma, nephroblastoma, neuroblastoma, pancreatoblastoma, pleuropulmonary blastoma, retinoblastoma, and glioblastoma multiforme), lymphoma (e.g., Hodgkin's lymphoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and Burkitt lymphoma), myeloma (e.g., multiple myeloma, plasmacytoma, localized myeloma, and extramedullary myeloma), melanoma (e.g., superficial spreading melanoma, nodular melanoma, lentigno maligna melanoma, acral lentiginous melanoma, and amelanotic melanoma), neuroma (e.g., ganglioneuroma, Pacinian neuroma, and acoustic neuroma), glioma (e.g., astrocytoma, oligoastrocytoma, ependymoma, brainstem glioma, optic nerve glioma, and oligoastrocytoma), pheochromocytoma, meningioma, malignant mesothelioma, and virally induced cancer.

In some embodiments, the cancer is a paraneoplastic cancer (e.g., a cancer that causes a paraneoplastic syndrome). Paraneoplastic syndromes are rare disorders that are triggered by an altered immune system response to a neoplasm, and are mediated by humoral factors such as hormones, cytokines, or auto-antibodies produced by the tumor. Symptoms of paraneoplastic syndrome may be endocrine, neuromuscular, or musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, cutaneous, hematologic, gastrointestinal, renal, or neurological. Paraneoplastic syndromes commonly present with lung, breast, and ovarian cancer and cancer of the lymphatic system (e.g., lymphoma). Paraneoplastic neurological disorders are disorders that affect the central or peripheral nervous system, and can include symptoms such as ataxia (difficulty with walking and balance), dizziness, nystagmus (rapid uncontrolled eye movements), difficulty swallowing, loss of muscle tone, loss of fine motor coordination, slurred speech memory loss, vision problems, sleep disturbances, dementia, seizures, or sensory loss in the limbs. Breast, ovarian, and lung cancers are most commonly associated with paraneoplastic neurological disorders. Other common types of paraneoplastic syndromes include paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration, paraneoplastic pemphigus, paraneoplastic autonomic neuropathy, paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis, and cancer-associated autoimmune retinopathy.

Endocrine paraneoplastic syndromes include Cushing syndrome (caused by ectopic ACTH), which is most commonly caused by small cell lung cancer, pancreatic carcinoma, neural tumors, or thymoma; SIADH (caused by antidiuretic hormone), which is most commonly caused by small cell lung cancer and CNS malignancies; hypercalcemia (caused by PTHrp, TG Fa, TNF, or IL-1), which is most commonly caused by lung cancer, breast carcinoma, renal and bladder carcinoma, multiple myeloma, adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma, ovarian carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma (e.g., lung, head, neck, or esophagus carcinoma); hyperglycemia (caused by insulin insulin-like substance, or “big” IGF-II), which is most commonly caused by fibrosarcoma, mesenchymal sarcomas, insulinoma, and hepatocellular carcinoma; carcinoid syndrome (caused by serotonin or bradykinin), which is most commonly caused by bronchial adenoma, pancreatic carcinoma, and gastric carcinoma; and hyperaldosteronism (caused by aldosterone), which is most commonly caused by adrenal adenoma/Conn's syndrome, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, ovarian carcinoma, and pulmonary cancer.

Neurological paraneoplastic syndromes include Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS), which is most commonly caused by small cell lung cancer; paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration, which is most commonly caused by lung cancer, ovarian cancer, breast carcinoma, and Hodgkin's lymphoma; encephalomyelitis; limbic encephalitis, which is most commonly caused by small cell lung carcinoma; myasthenia gravis, which is most commonly caused by thymoma; brainstem encephalitis; opsoclonus myoclonus ataxia (caused by autoimmune reaction against Nova-1), which is most commonly caused by breast carcinoma, ovarian carcinoma, small cell lung carcinoma, and neuroblastoma; anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (caused by autoimmune reaction against NMDAR subunits), which is most commonly caused by teratoma; and polymyositis, which is most commonly caused by lung cancer, bladder cancer, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Mucotaneous paraneoplastic syndromes include acanthosis nigricans, which is most commonly caused by gastric carcinoma, lung carcinoma, and uterine carcinoma; dermatomyositis, which is most commonly caused by bronchogenic carcinoma, breast carcinoma, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, stomach cancer, colorectal cancer, and Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Leser-Trelat sign; necrolytic migratory erythema, which is most commonly caused by glucoganoma; Sweet's syndrome; florid cutaneous papillomatosis; pyoderma gangrenosum; and acquired generalized hypertrichosis.

Hematological syndromes include granulocytosis (caused by G-CSF); polycythemia (caused by erythropoietin), which is commonly caused by renal carcinoma, cerebellar hemangioma, and heptatocellular carcinoma; Trousseau sign (caused by mucins), which is commonly caused by pancreatic carcinoma and bronchogenic carcinoma; nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis, which is caused by advanced cancers; and anemia, which is most commonly caused by thymic neoplasms. Other paraneoplastic syndromes include membranous glomerular nephritis; neoplastic fever; Staffer syndrome, which is caused by renal cell carcinoma; and tumor-induced osteomalacia (caused by FGF23), which is caused by hemangiopericytoma and phosphaturic mesenchymal tumor.

In some embodiments, a subject is identified as having cancer after presenting with symptoms of a paraneoplastic syndrome. A common symptom of paraneoplastic syndrome is fever. Auto-antibodies directed against nervous system proteins are also frequently observed in patients with paraneoplastic syndromes, including anti-Hu, anti-Yo, anti-Ri, anti-amphiphysin, anti-CV2, anti-Ma2, anti-recoverin, anti-transducin, anti-carbonic anhydrase II, anti-arrestin, anti-GCAP1, anti-GCAP2, anti-HSP27, anti-Rab6A, and anti-PNR. Other symptoms that can be used to identify a patient with paraneoplastic cancer include ataxia, dizziness, nystagmus, difficulty swallowing, loss of muscle tone, loss of fine motor coordination, slurred speech memory loss, vision loss, sleep disturbances, dementia, seizures, dysgeusia, cachexia, anemia, itching, or sensory loss in the limbs. In some embodiments, a patient presents with symptoms of paraneoplastic syndrome and is then identified as having cancer based on imaging tests (e.g., CT, MRI, or PET scans).

The cancer may be highly innervated, metastatic, non-metastatic cancer, or benign (e.g., a benign tumor). The cancer may be a primary tumor or a metastasized tumor.

Subjects who can be treated with the methods disclosed herein include subjects who have had one or more tumors resected, received chemotherapy or other pharmacological treatment for the cancer, received radiation therapy, and/or received other therapy for the cancer. Subjects who have not previously been treated for cancer can also be treated with the methods disclosed herein.

V. Combination Therapies for Cancer

Combination Therapies for Cancer

A neuromodulating agent described herein can be administered in combination with a second therapeutic agent for treatment of cancer. In some embodiments, the second therapeutic agent is selected based on tumor type, tumor tissue of origin, tumor stage, or mutations in non-neurome genes expressed by the tumor.

Checkpoint Inhibitors

One type of agent that can be administered in combination with a neuromodulating agent described herein is a checkpoint inhibitor. Checkpoint inhibitors can be broken down into at least 4 major categories: i) agents such as antibodies that block an inhibitory pathway directly on T cells or natural killer (NK) cells (e.g., PD-1 targeting antibodies such as nivolumab and pembrolizumab, antibodies targeting TIM-3, and antibodies targeting LAG-3, 2B4, CD160, A2aR, BTLA, CGEN-15049, or KIR), ii) agents such as antibodies that activate stimulatory pathways directly on T cells or NK cells (e.g., antibodies targeting OX40, GITR, or 4-1 BB), iii) agents such as antibodies that block a suppressive pathway on immune cells or rely on antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity to deplete suppressive populations of immune cells (e.g., CTLA-4 targeting antibodies such as ipilimumab, antibodies targeting VISTA, and antibodies targeting PD-L2, Gr1, or Ly6G), and iv) agents such as antibodies that block a suppressive pathway directly on cancer cells or that rely on antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity to enhance cytotoxicity to cancer cells (e.g., rituximab, antibodies targeting PD-L1, and antibodies targeting B7-H3, B7-H4, Gal-9, or MUC1). Such agents described herein can be designed and produced, e.g., by conventional methods known in the art (e.g., Templeton, Gene and Cell Therapy, 2015; Green and Sambrook, Molecular Cloning, 2012).

Chemotherapy

A second type of therapeutic agent that can be administered in combination with a neuromodulating agent described herein is a chemotherapeutic agent (e.g., a cytotoxic agent or other chemical compound useful in the treatment of cancer). These include alkylating agents, antimetabolites, folic acid analogs, pyrimidine analogs, purine analogs and related inhibitors, vinca alkaloids, epipodopyyllotoxins, antibiotics, L-Asparaginase, topoisomerase inhibitors, interferons, platinum coordination complexes, anthracenedione substituted urea, methyl hydrazine derivatives, adrenocortical suppressant, adrenocorticosteroides, progestins, estrogens, antiestrogen, androgens, antiandrogen, and gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog. Also included is 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), leucovorin (LV), irenotecan, oxaliplatin, capecitabine, paclitaxel and doxetaxel. Non-limiting examples of chemotherapeutic agents include alkylating agents such as thiotepa and cyclosphosphamide; alkyl sulfonates such as busulfan, improsulfan and piposulfan; aziridines such as benzodopa, carboquone, meturedopa, and uredopa; ethylenimines and methylamelamines including altretamine, triethylenemelamine, trietylenephosphoramide, triethiylenethiophosphoramide and trimethylolomelamine; acetogenins (especially bullatacin and bullatacinone); a camptothecin (including the synthetic analogue topotecan); bryostatin; callystatin; CC-1065 (including its adozelesin, carzelesin and bizelesin synthetic analogues); cryptophycins (particularly cryptophycin 1 and cryptophycin 8); dolastatin; duocarmycin (including the synthetic analogues, KW-2189 and CB1-TM1); eleutherobin; pancratistatin; a sarcodictyin; spongistatin; nitrogen mustards such as chlorambucil, chlornaphazine, cholophosphamide, estramustine, ifosfamide, mechlorethamine, mechlorethamine oxide hydrochloride, melphalan, novembichin, phenesterine, prednimustine, trofosfamide, uracil mustard; nitrosureas such as carmustine, chlorozotocin, fotemustine, lomustine, nimustine, and ranimnustine; antibiotics such as the enediyne antibiotics (e.g., calicheamicin, especially calicheamicin gammall and calicheamicin omegall (see, e.g., Agnew, Chem. Intl. Ed Engl. 33:183 1994); dynemicin, including dynemicin A; bisphosphonates, such as clodronate; an esperamicin; as well as neocarzinostatin chromophore and related chromoprotein enediyne antiobiotic chromophores), aclacinomysins, actinomycin, authramycin, azaserine, bleomycins, cactinomycin, carabicin, caminomycin, carzinophilin, chromomycinis, dactinomycin, daunorubicin, detorubicin, 6-diazo-5-oxo-L-norleucine, doxorubicin (including morpholino-doxorubicin, cyanomorpholino-doxorubicin, 2-pyrrolino-doxorubicin and deoxydoxorubicin), epirubicin, esorubicin, idarubicin, marcellomycin, mitomycins such as mitomycin C, mycophenolic acid, nogalamycin, olivomycins, peplomycin, potfiromycin, puromycin, quelamycin, rodorubicin, streptonigrin, streptozocin, tubercidin, ubenimex, zinostatin, zorubicin; anti-metabolites such as methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU); folic acid analogues such as denopterin, methotrexate, pteropterin, trimetrexate; purine analogs such as fludarabine, 6-mercaptopurine, thiamiprine, thioguanine; pyrimidine analogs such as ancitabine, azacitidine, 6-azauridine, carmofur, cytarabine, dideoxyuridine, doxifluridine, enocitabine, floxuridine; androgens such as calusterone, dromostanolone propionate, epitiostanol, mepitiostane, testolactone; anti-adrenals such as aminoglutethimide, mitotane, trilostane; folic acid replenisher such as frolinic acid; aceglatone; aldophosphamide glycoside; aminolevulinic acid; eniluracil; amsacrine; bestrabucil; bisantrene; edatraxate; defofamine; demecolcine; diaziquone; elfomithine; elliptinium acetate; an epothilone; etoglucid; gallium nitrate; hydroxyurea; lentinan; lonidainine; maytansinoids such as maytansine and ansamitocins; mitoguazone; mitoxantrone; mopidanmol; nitraerine; pentostatin; phenamet; pirarubicin; losoxantrone; podophyllinic acid; 2-ethylhydrazide; procarbazine; razoxane; rhizoxin; sizofuran; spirogermanium; tenuazonic acid; triaziquone; 2,2′,2″-trichlorotriethylamine; trichothecenes (especially T-2 toxin, verracurin A, roridin A and anguidine); urethan; vindesine; dacarbazine; mannomustine; mitobronitol; mitolactol; pipobroman; gacytosine; arabinoside (“Ara-C”); cyclophosphamide; thiotepa; taxoids, e.g., paclitaxel; chloranbucil; gemcitabine; 6-thioguanine; mercaptopurine; methotrexate; platinum coordination complexes such as cisplatin, oxaliplatin and carboplatin; vinblastine; platinum; etoposide (VP-16); ifosfamide; mitoxantrone; vincristine; vinorelbine; novantrone; teniposide; edatrexate; daunomycin; aminopterin; xeloda; ibandronate; irinotecan (e.g., CPT-11); topoisomerase inhibitor RFS 2000; difluoromethylornithine (DMFO); retinoids such as retinoic acid; capecitabine; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, acids or derivatives of any of the above. Two or more chemotherapeutic agents can be used in a cocktail to be administered in combination with the first therapeutic agent described herein. Suitable dosing regimens of combination chemotherapies are known in the art and described in, for example, Saltz et al., Proc ASCO 18:233a, 1999, and Douillard et al., Lancet 355:1041, 2000.

Biologic Cancer Agents

Another type of therapeutic agent that can be administered in combination with a neuromodulating agent described herein is a therapeutic agent that is a biologic such a cytokine (e.g., interferon or an interleukin (e.g., IL-2)) used in cancer treatment. In other embodiments the biologic is an anti-angiogenic agent, such as an anti-VEGF agent, e.g., bevacizumab. In some embodiments the biologic is an immunoglobulin-based biologic, e.g., a monoclonal antibody (e.g., a humanized antibody, a fully human antibody, an Fc fusion protein or a functional fragment thereof) that agonizes a target to stimulate an anti-cancer response, or antagonizes an antigen important for cancer. Such agents include Rituximab; Daclizumab; Basiliximab; Palivizumab; Infliximab; Trastuzumab; Gemtuzumab ozogamicin; Alemtuzumab; Ibritumomab tiuxetan; Adalimumab; Omalizumab; Tositumomab-I-131; Efalizumab; Cetuximab; Bevacizumab; Natalizumab; Tocilizumab; Panitumumab; Ranibizumab; Eculizumab; Certolizumab pegol; Golimumab; Canakinumab; Ustekinumab; Ofatumumab; Denosumab; Motavizumab; Raxibacumab; Belimumab; Ipilimumab; Brentuximab Vedotin; Pertuzumab; Ado-trastuzumab emtansine; and Obinutuzumab. Also included are antibody-drug conjugates. Examples of biologic cancer agents that can be used in combination with neuromodulating agents described herein are shown in Table 12 below. These antibodies can be administered in combination with a neuromodulating agent to promote ADCC or ADCP.

TABLE 12 APPROVED CANCER ANTIBODIES Antibody Company Antigen Indication ado-trastuzumab Genentech HER2 Metastatic breast cancer emtansine alemtuzumab Genzyme CD52 B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia atezolizumab Genentech PD-L1 Urothelial carcinoma atezolizumab Genentech PD-L1 Urothelial carcinoma Metastatic non-small cell lung cancer avelumab EMD Serono PD-L1 Metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma bevacizumab Genentech VEGF Metastatic colorectal cancer blinatumomab Amgen CD19 Precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia brentuximab Seattle Genetics CD30 Hodgkin lymphoma vedotin Anaplastic large-cell lymphoma cetuximab ImClone Systems EGFR Metastatic colorectal carcinoma daratumumab Janssen Biotech CD38 Multiple myeloma dinutuximab United Therapeutics GD2 Pediatric high-risk neuroblastoma durvalumab AstraZeneca PD-L1 Urothelial carcinoma elotuzumab Bristol-Myers SLAMF7 Multiple myeloma Squibb ibritumomab Spectrum CD20 Relapsed or refractory low-grade, follicular, or tiuxetan Pharmaceuticals transformed B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma ipilimumab Bristol-Myers CTLA-4 Metastatic melanoma Squibb necitumumab Eli Lilly EGFR Metastatic squamous non-small cell lung carcinoma nivolumab Bristol-Myers PD-1 Metastatic melanoma Squibb nivolumab Bristol-Myers PD-1 Metastatic squamous non-small cell lung Squibb carcinoma obinutuzumab Genentech CD20 Chronic lymphocytic leukemia ofatumumab Glaxo Grp CD20 Chronic lymphocytic leukemia olaratumab Eli Lilly PDGFRA Soft tissue sarcoma panitumumab Amgen EGFR Metastatic colorectal cancer pembrolizumab Merck PD-1 Metastatic melanoma pertuzumab Genentech HER2 Metastatic breast cancer ramucirumab Eli Lilly VEGFR2 Gastric cancer rituximab Genentech CD20 B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma trastuzumab Genentech HER2 Metastatic breast cancer

Non-Drug Therapies

Another type of agent that can be administered in combination with a neuromodulating agent is a therapeutic agent that is a non-drug treatment. For example, the second therapeutic agent is radiation therapy, cryotherapy, hyperthermia and/or surgical excision of tumor tissue.

In any of the combination therapy approaches described herein, the first and second therapeutic agent (e.g., a neuromodulating agent described herein and the additional therapeutic agent) are administered simultaneously or sequentially, in either order. The first therapeutic agent may be administered immediately, up to 1 hour, up to 2 hours, up to 3 hours, up to 4 hours, up to 5 hours, up to 6 hours, up to 7 hours, up to, 8 hours, up to 9 hours, up to 10 hours, up to 11 hours, up to 12 hours, up to 13 hours, 14 hours, up to hours 16, up to 17 hours, up 18 hours, up to 19 hours up to 20 hours, up to 21 hours, up to 22 hours, up to 23 hours up to 24 hours or up to 1-7, 1-14, 1-21 or 1-30 days before or after the second therapeutic agent.

VI. Methods of Treatment

Administration

An effective amount of a neuromodulating agent described herein for treatment of cancer can be administered to a subject by standard methods. For example, the agent can be administered by any of a number of different routes including, e.g., intravenous, intradermal, subcutaneous, percutaneous injection, oral, transdermal (topical), or transmucosal. The neuromodulating agent can be administered orally or administered by injection, e.g., intramuscularly, or intravenously. The most suitable route for administration in any given case will depend on the particular agent administered, the patient, the particular disease or condition being treated, pharmaceutical formulation methods, administration methods (e.g., administration time and administration route), the patient's age, body weight, sex, severity of the diseases being treated, the patient's diet, and the patient's excretion rate. The agent can be encapsulated or injected, e.g., in a viscous form, for delivery to a chosen site, e.g., a tumor or a lymph node. The agent can be provided in a matrix capable of delivering the agent to the chosen site. Matrices can provide slow release of the agent and provide proper presentation and appropriate environment for cellular infiltration. Matrices can be formed of materials presently in use for other implanted medical applications. The choice of matrix material is based on any one or more of: biocompatibility, biodegradability, mechanical properties, and cosmetic appearance and interface properties. One example is a collagen matrix.

The agent (e.g., peptide, neurotransmitter, small molecule, nucleic acid, protein such as an antibody) can be incorporated into pharmaceutical compositions suitable for administration to a subject, e.g., a human. Such compositions typically include the agent and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. As used herein the term “pharmaceutically acceptable carrier” is intended to include any and all solvents, dispersion media, coatings, antibacterial and antifungal agents, isotonic and absorption delaying agents, and the like, compatible with pharmaceutical administration. The use of such media and agents for pharmaceutically active substances are known. Except insofar as any conventional media or agent is incompatible with the active compound, such media can be used in the compositions of the invention. Supplementary active compounds can also be incorporated into the compositions.

A pharmaceutical composition can be formulated to be compatible with its intended route of administration. Solutions or suspensions used for parenteral, intradermal, or subcutaneous application can include the following components: a sterile diluent such as water for injection, saline solution, fixed oils, polyethylene glycols, glycerine, propylene glycol or other synthetic solvents; antibacterial agents such as benzyl alcohol or methyl parabens; antioxidants such as ascorbic acid or sodium bisulfite; chelating agents such as ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; buffers such as acetates, citrates or phosphates and agents for the adjustment of tonicity such as sodium chloride or dextrose. pH can be adjusted with acids or bases, such as hydrochloric acid or sodium hydroxide. The parenteral preparation can be enclosed in ampoules, disposable syringes or multiple dose vials made of glass or plastic.

Pharmaceutical compositions suitable for injectable use include sterile aqueous solutions (where water soluble) or dispersions and sterile powders for the extemporaneous preparation of sterile injectable solutions or dispersion. For intravenous administration, suitable carriers include physiological saline, bacteriostatic water, or phosphate buffered saline (PBS). In all cases, the composition must be sterile and should be fluid to the extent that easy syringability exists. It must be stable under the conditions of manufacture and storage and must be preserved against the contaminating action of microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi. The carrier can be a solvent or dispersion medium containing, for example, water, ethanol, polyol (for example, glycerol, propylene glycol, and liquid polyethylene glycol, and the like), and suitable mixtures thereof. The proper fluidity can be maintained, for example, by the use of a coating such as lecithin, by the maintenance of the required particle size in the case of dispersion and by the use of surfactants. Prevention of the action of microorganisms can be achieved by various antibacterial and antifungal agents, for example, parabens, chlorobutanol, phenol, ascorbic acid, thimerosal, and the like. In many cases, it will be preferable to include isotonic agents, for example, sugars, polyalcohols such as mannitol, sorbitol, and sodium chloride in the composition. Prolonged absorption of the injectable compositions can be brought about by including in the composition an agent which delays absorption, for example, aluminum monostearate and gelatin.

Sterile injectable solutions can be prepared by incorporating the active compound (e.g., a neuromodulating agent described herein) in the required amount in an appropriate solvent with one or a combination of ingredients enumerated above, as required, followed by filtered sterilization. Generally, dispersions are prepared by incorporating the active compound into a sterile vehicle which contains a basic dispersion medium and the required other ingredients from those enumerated above. In the case of sterile powders for the preparation of sterile injectable solutions, the preferred methods of preparation are vacuum drying and freeze-drying which yields a powder of the active ingredient plus any additional desired ingredient from a previously sterile-filtered solution thereof.

Oral compositions generally include an inert diluent or an edible carrier. They can be enclosed in gelatin capsules or compressed into tablets. For the purpose of oral therapeutic administration, the active compound can be incorporated with excipients and used in the form of tablets, troches, or capsules. Oral compositions can also be prepared using a fluid carrier for use as a mouthwash, wherein the compound in the fluid carrier is applied orally and swished and expectorated or swallowed. Pharmaceutically compatible binding agents, and/or adjuvant materials can be included as part of the composition. The tablets, pills, capsules, troches and the like can contain any of the following ingredients, or compounds of a similar nature: a binder such as microcrystalline cellulose, gum tragacanth or gelatin; an excipient such as starch or lactose, a disintegrating agent such as alginic acid, or corn starch; a lubricant such as magnesium stearate; a glidant such as colloidal silicon dioxide; a sweetening agent such as sucrose or saccharin; or a flavoring agent such as peppermint, methyl salicylate, or orange flavoring.

Systemic administration can also be by transmucosal or transdermal means. For transmucosal or transdermal administration, penetrants appropriate to the barrier to be permeated are used in the formulation. Such penetrants are generally known, and include, for example, for transmucosal administration, detergents, bile salts, and fusidic acid derivatives. Transmucosal administration can be accomplished through the use of nasal sprays or suppositories. For transdermal administration, the active compounds are formulated into ointments, salves, gels, or creams as generally known in the art.

The active compounds can be prepared with carriers that will protect the compound against rapid elimination from the body, such as a controlled release formulation, including implants and microencapsulated delivery systems. Biodegradable, biocompatible polymers can be used, such as ethylene vinyl acetate, polyanhydrides, polyglycolic acid, collagen, polyorthoesters, and polylactic acid. Methods for preparation of such formulations will be apparent to those skilled in the art. Liposomal suspensions (including liposomes targeted to infected cells with monoclonal antibodies to viral antigens) can also be used as pharmaceutically acceptable carriers. These can be prepared according to methods known to those skilled in the art.

Nucleic acid molecule agents described herein can be administered directly (e.g., therapeutic mRNAs) or inserted into vectors used as gene therapy vectors. Gene therapy vectors can be delivered to a subject by, for example, intravenous injection, local administration (see U.S. Pat. No. 5,328,470) or by stereotactic injection (see, e.g., Chen et al., PNAS 91:3054 1994). The pharmaceutical preparation of the gene therapy vector can include the gene therapy vector in an acceptable diluent, or can include a slow release matrix in which the gene delivery vehicle is imbedded. Alternatively, where the complete gene delivery vector can be produced intact from recombinant cells, e.g., retroviral vectors, the pharmaceutical preparation can include one or more cells which produce the gene delivery system.

The pharmaceutical compositions can be included in a container, pack, or dispenser together with instructions for administration.

Methods of formulating pharmaceutical agents are known in the art, e.g., Niazi, Handbook of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Formulations (Second Edition), CRC Press 2009, describes formulation development for liquid, sterile, compressed, semi-compressed and OTC forms. Transdermal and mucosal delivery, lymphatic system delivery, nanoparticles, controlled drug release systems, theranostics, protein and peptide drugs, and biologics delivery are described in Wang et al., Drug Delivery: Principles and Applications (Second Edition), Wiley 2016; formulation and delivery of peptide and protein agent is described, e.g., in Banga, Therapeutic Peptides and Proteins: Formulation, Processing, and Delivery Systems (Third Edition), CRC Press 2015.

The neuromodulating agents described herein may be administered in a unit dose form. For example, the methods described herein include administration of a unit dose form of a beta-adrenergic inhibitory agent. The unit dose can be less than or more than a unit dose of the beta blocker that is FDA approved for high blood pressure, a cardiac condition, angina, essential tremor, hypertrophic subaortic stenosis, migraine prophylaxis, myocardial infarction prophylaxis, pheochromocytoma, tachyarrhythmias, or thyrotoxicosis. The beta-adrenergic blocking agent can be selected from: acebutolol, atenolol, bisoprolol, metoprolol, nadolol, and propranolol. The agent can be formulated for parenteral administration, enteral administration (e.g., oral), or local administration (e.g., epicutaneous, inhalational, intra-articular, intrathecal, intravaginal, intravitreal, intrauterine, intra-lesional or intra-tumoral administration).

The unit dose form can be a unit dose of a cholinergic inhibitory agent. The unit dose can be less than or more than a unit dose of the cholinergic blocker that is FDA approved for Alzheimer's Disease, Cardiac and Respiratory Disorders, Atony and Neurogenic Bladder, motion sickness, Myasthenia gravis, Peptic ulcer, IBD, Glaucoma, Parkinson's Disease, reflex neurogenic bladder (spinal cord injury), or Incontinence-overactive bladder. The cholinergic blocking agent can be selected from: tacrine, galantamine, rivastigmine, donepezil. The unit dose can be configured for local administration, e.g., epicutaneous, inhalational, intra-articular, intrathecal, intravaginal, intravitreal, intrauterine, intra-lesional or intra-tumoral administration.

The unit dose form can be a unit dose of a dopaminergic inhibitory agent. The unit dose can be less than or more than a unit dose of the dopamine blocker that is FDA approved for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or nausea and vomiting. The dopamine blocking agent can be selected from: acepromazine, amisulpride, amoxapine, asenapine, azaperone, benperidol, Bromopride, butaclamol, chlorpromazine, chlorprothixene, clopenthixol, Domperidone, droperidol, eticlopride, flupenthixol, fluphenazine, fluspirilene, haloperidol, hydroxyzine, iodobenzamide, loxapine, mesoridazine, levomepromazine, metoclopramide, nafadotride, nemonapride, olanzapine, paliperidone, penfluridol, perazine, perphenazine, pimozide, prochlorperazine, promazine, quetiapine, raclopride, remoxipride, risperidone, spiperone, spiroxatrine, stepholidine, sulpiride, sultopride, tetrahydropalmatine, thiethylperazine, thioridazine, thiothixene, tiapride, trifluoperazine, trifluperidol, triflupromazine, and ziprasidone. The unit dose can be configured for local administration, e.g., epicutaneous, inhalational, intra-articular, intrathecal, intravaginal, intravitreal, intrauterine, intra-lesional or intra-tumoral administration.

The unit dose can be a unit dose of a serotonin inhibitory agent. The unit dose can be less than or more than a unit dose of the serotonin blocker that is FDA approved for treatment of a mood disorder, e.g., major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), chronic neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), or for the relief of menopausal symptoms. The serotonin blocking agent can be selected from: Venlafaxine, Desvenlafaxine, Duloxetine, Milnacipran Levomilnacipran, Sibutramine, and Atomoxetine. The unit dose can be configured for local administration, e.g., epicutaneous, inhalational, intra-articular, intrathecal, intravaginal, intravitreal, intrauterine, intra-lesional or intra-tumoral administration.

Local Administration

The neuromodulating agents described herein can be administered locally, e.g., to the site of damage or disease associated with the cancer in the subject, such as tumor or lymph node. Examples of local administration include epicutaneous, inhalational, intra-articular, intrathecal, intravaginal, intravitreal, intrauterine, intra-lesional administration, lymph node administration, intratumoral administration and administration to a mucous membrane of the subject, wherein the administration is intended to have a local and not a systemic effect. As an example, for the treatment of a cancer described herein, the neuromodulating agent may be administered locally (e.g., intratumorally) in a compound-impregnated substrate such as a wafer, microcassette, or resorbable sponge placed in direct contact with the affected tissue. Alternatively, the neuromodulating agent is infused into the brain or cerebrospinal fluid using standard methods. As yet another example, a pulmonary cancer described herein may be treated, for example, by administering the neuromodulating agent locally by inhalation, e.g., in the form of an aerosol spray from a pressured container or dispenser which contains a suitable propellant, e.g., a gas such as carbon dioxide or a nebulizer. A neuromodulating agent for use in the methods described herein can be administered into a lymph node or at the site of a tumor, e.g., intratumorally. In certain embodiments, the agent is administered to a mucous membrane of the subject.

Combination Therapy

The neuromodulating agents described herein may be administered in combination with one or more additional therapies (e.g., 1, 2, 3 or more additional therapeutic agents). The two or more agents can be administered at the same time (e.g., administration of all agents occurs within 10 minutes, 5 minutes, 2 minutes or less). The agents can also be administered simultaneously via co-formulation. The two or more agents can also be administered sequentially, such that the action of the two or more agents overlaps and their combined effect is such that the reduction in a symptom, or other parameter related to the disorder is greater than what would be observed with one agent or treatment delivered alone or in the absence of the other. The effect of the two or more treatments can be partially additive, wholly additive, or greater than additive (e.g., synergistic). Sequential or substantially simultaneous administration of each therapeutic agent can be effected by any appropriate route including, but not limited to, oral routes, intravenous routes, intramuscular routes, local routes, and direct absorption through mucous membrane tissues. The therapeutic agents can be administered by the same route or by different routes. For example, a first therapeutic agent of the combination may be administered by intravenous injection while a second therapeutic agent of the combination can be administered locally in a compound-impregnated microcassette. The first therapeutic agent may be administered immediately, up to 1 hour, up to 2 hours, up to 3 hours, up to 4 hours, up to 5 hours, up to 6 hours, up to 7 hours, up to, 8 hours, up to 9 hours, up to 10 hours, up to 11 hours, up to 12 hours, up to 13 hours, 14 hours, up to hours 16, up to 17 hours, up 18 hours, up to 19 hours up to 20 hours, up to 21 hours, up to 22 hours, up to 23 hours up to 24 hours or up to 1-7, 1-14, 1-21 or 1-30 days before or after the second therapeutic agent.

For use in treating cancer, the second agent may be a checkpoint inhibitor, a chemotherapeutic drug, a biologic drug. In one embodiment, the inhibitor of checkpoint is an inhibitory antibody (e.g., a monospecific antibody such as a monoclonal antibody). The antibody may be, e.g., humanized or fully human. In other embodiments, the inhibitor of checkpoint is a fusion protein, e.g., an Fc-receptor fusion protein. In some embodiments, the inhibitor of checkpoint is an agent, such as an antibody, that interacts with a checkpoint protein. In other embodiments, the inhibitor of checkpoint is an agent, such as an antibody, that interacts with the ligand of a checkpoint protein. In one embodiment, the inhibitor of checkpoint is an inhibitor (e.g., an inhibitory antibody or small molecule inhibitor) of CTLA-4 (e.g., an anti-CTLA4 antibody such as ipilimumab or tremelimumab). In one embodiment, the inhibitor of checkpoint is an inhibitor (e.g., an inhibitory antibody or small molecule inhibitor) of PD-1 (e.g., nivolumab; pembrolizumab; pidilizumab/CT-011). In one embodiment, the inhibitor of checkpoint is an inhibitor (e.g., an inhibitory antibody or small molecule inhibitor) of PDL1 (e.g., MPDL3280A/RG7446; MED14736; MSB0010718C; BMS 936559). In one embodiment, the inhibitor of checkpoint is an inhibitor (e.g., an inhibitory antibody or Fc fusion or small molecule inhibitor) of PDL2 (e.g., a PDL2/Ig fusion protein such as AMP 224). In one embodiment, the inhibitor of checkpoint is an inhibitor (e.g., an inhibitory antibody or small molecule inhibitor) of B7-H3 (e.g., MGA271), B7-H4, BTLA, HVEM, TIM3, GAL9, LAG3, VISTA, KIR, 2B4, CD160, CGEN-15049, CHK 1, CHK2, A2aR, B-7 family ligands, or a combination thereof. The second agent may also be an anti-angiogenic drug, e.g., an anti-VEGF antibody, or the second agent may be an oncolytic agent e.g., a chemotherapy, a drug that targets cancer metabolism, an antibody that marks a cancer cell surface for destruction, e.g., rituximab or trastuzumab an antibody-drug conjugate, e.g., trastuzumab emtansine, a cell therapy, or other commonly-used anti-neoplastic agent.

Dosing

Subjects that can be treated as described herein are subjects with cancer or at risk of developing cancer. The cancer may be a primary tumor or a metastasized tumor. Subjects who can be treated with the methods disclosed herein include subjects who have had one or more tumors resected, received chemotherapy or other pharmacological treatment for the cancer, received radiation therapy, and/or received other therapy for the cancer. Subjects who have never previously been treated for cancer can also be treated using the methods described herein.

In some embodiments, the agent is administered in an amount and for a time effective to result in one of (or more, e.g., 2 or more, 3 or more, 4 or more of): (a) reduced tumor size, (b) reduced rate of tumor growth, (c) increased tumor cell death (d) reduced tumor progression, (e) reduced number of metastases, (f) reduced rate of metastasis, (g) decreased tumor recurrence (h) increased survival of subject, (i) increased progression free survival of subject.

The methods described herein may include a step of selecting a treatment for a patient. The method includes (a) identifying (e.g., diagnosing) a patient who has cancer or is at risk of developing cancer, and (b) selecting a neuromodulating agent, e.g., a neuromodulating agent described herein, to treat the condition in the patient. In some embodiments, the method includes administering the selected treatment to the subject. In some embodiments, a patient is identified as having cancer based on imaging (e.g., MRI, CT, or PET scan), biopsy, or blood sample (e.g., detection of blood antigen markers, circulating tumor DNA (e.g., by PCR). In some embodiments, a patient is identified as having cancer after presenting with one or more symptoms of a paraneoplastic syndrome (e.g., fever. auto-antibodies directed against nervous system proteins, ataxia, dizziness, nystagmus, difficulty swallowing, loss of muscle tone, loss of fine motor coordination, slurred speech memory loss, vision loss, sleep disturbances, dementia, seizures, dysgeusia, cachexia, anemia, itching, or sensory loss in the limbs). In some embodiments, a patient presents with symptoms of paraneoplastic syndrome and is then identified as having cancer based on imaging (e.g., CT, MRI, or PET scans).

The method may also include (a) identifying (e.g., diagnosing) a patient who has a neoplasm, (b) optionally evaluating the neoplasm for innervation, and (c) selecting a neuromodulating agent (e.g., a neuromodulating agent described herein) to treat the patient if the neoplasm is highly innervated (e.g., if the level of innervation is at least 10% higher (e.g., at least 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% higher) than the level of innervation in control tissue, e.g., non-cancerous tissue of the same subject). Innervation may be measured by staining tissue sections for neural markers e.g., immuno-histochemical staining for tyrosine hydroxylase, vesicular acetylcholine transporter; NGF-Inducible Large External glycoprotein, choline acetyltransferase, parvalbumin, neurofilament protein, Synapsin, synaptophysin, NeuN, NSE, MAP2, Beta III tubulin, 160 kD Neurofilament medium/200 kD Neurofilament Heavy, NSE, PSD93/PSD95, Doublecortin (DCX), c-fos, PSA-NCAM, NeuroD or Beta2, Tau, Calbindin-D28k, Calretinin, Neurofilament Protein (NFP), Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), S100β, Vimentin and CNPase; or by staining tissue sections with cell-identifying stains, e.g., H&E stain, Nissl Stain, Cresyl violet, Neutral red, Thionine and Toluidine blue, Luxol Fast blue stain, Weigert's Chromium hematoxylin method, Page's iron-eriochrome cyanine R, Dextran Conjugates (Fluorescein, Tetramethylrhodamine, Texas Red, Rhodamine Green), Hydrazides & Biocytins, Isolectin GS-IB4 conjugates, Golgi silver stain, or myelin stain; or by imaging the nervous system, e.g., by MRI, CT, PET, EEG, EMG, Myelogram, or magnetoencephalography. In some embodiments, the neoplasm is selected from: head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, adenoid cystic carcinoma, lymphoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, biliary tract cancer, gastric cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, skin cancer (e.g., melanoma), renal cell carcinoma, or colorectal cancer. In some embodiments, the cancer is a cancer listed in Table 5. In some embodiments, the neoplasm is derived from a secretory tissue, glandular tissue, or endocrine or hormonal tissue.

In one embodiment, the method includes (a) identifying (e.g., diagnosing) a patient who has a neoplasm, (b) optionally evaluating the neoplasm for perineural invasion, and (c) selecting a neuromodulating agent to treat the patient if the neoplasm exhibits perineural invasion. In some embodiments, the neoplasm is selected from: head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, adenoid cystic carcinoma, lymphoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, biliary tract cancer, gastric cancer, pancreatic cancer, and prostate cancer.

In one embodiment, the method includes (a) identifying (e.g., diagnosing) a patient who has a neoplasm, (b) optionally evaluating the subject for metastasis to brain or spinal cord, and (c) selecting a neuromodulating agent to treat the patient if the neoplasm exhibits metastasis to brain or spinal cord. In some embodiments, the neoplasm is a lung cancer, breast cancer, skin cancer (e.g., melanoma), lymphoma, renal cell carcinoma, GI tract cancer, prostate cancer, or colorectal cancer.

In some embodiments, the method includes administering the selected treatment to the subject.

The method may also include a step of assessing the subject for a parameter of cancer progression or remission, e.g., assessing the subject for one or more (e.g., 2 or more, 3 or more, 4 or more) of: primary tumor size (e.g., by imaging), number of metastases (e.g., by imaging or biopsy), cell death in situ (e.g., by biopsy), blood antigen markers (e.g., by ELISA), circulating tumor DNA (e.g., by PCR), or function of the affected organ (e.g., by a test of circulating enzymes for liver, albuminuria for kidney, lung capacity for lung, etc.).

In some embodiments, a tumor is treated with a neuromodulating agent and a second therapeutic agent. The second therapeutic agent can be selected based on tumor type, tumor tissue of origin, tumor stage, or mutations in non-neurome genes expressed by the tumor.

A neuromodulating agent administered according to the methods described herein does not have a direct effect on the central nervous system (CNS) or gut. Any effect on the CNS or gut will be reduced compared to the effect observed if the neuromodulating agent is administered directly to the CNS or gut. Direct effects on the CNS or gut can be avoided by modifying the neuromodulating agent not to cross the BBB, as described herein above, or administering the agent locally to a subject.

Subjects with cancer or at risk of developing cancer are treated with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent. The methods described herein also include contacting immune cells with an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent. In some embodiments, an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent is an amount sufficient to increase or decrease lymph node innervation, tumor innervation, the development of HEVs or TLOs, immune cell migration, proliferation, recruitment, lymph node homing, lymph node egress, differentiation, tumor homing, tumor egress, activation, polarization, cytokine production, degranulation, maturation, ADCC, ADCP, or antigen presentation. In some embodiments, an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent is an amount sufficient to increase or decrease tumor innervation or nerve activity in a tumor. In some embodiments, an effective amount of a neuromodulating agent is an amount sufficient to treat the cancer or tumor, cause remission, reduce tumor growth, volume, metastasis, invasion, proliferation, or number, increase cancer cell death, increase time to recurrence, or improve survival.

The methods described herein may also include a step of assessing the subject for a parameter of immune response, e.g., assessing the subject for one or more (e.g., 2 or more, 3 or more, 4 or more) of: Th2 cells, T cells, circulating monocytes, neutrophils, peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cells, macrophages, mast cell degranulation, activated B cells, NKT cells, macrophage phagocytosis, macrophage polarization, antigen presentation, immune cell activation, immune cell proliferation, immune cell lymph node homing or egress, T cell differentiation, immune cell recruitment, immune cell migration, lymph node innervation, dendritic cell maturation, HEV development, TLO development, or cytokine production. In embodiments, the method includes measuring a cytokine or marker associated with the particular immune cell type, as listed in Table 9 (e.g., performing an assay listed in Table 9 for the cytokine or marker). In some embodiments, the method includes measuring a chemokine, receptor, or immune cell trafficking molecule, as listed in Tables 10 and 11 (e.g., performing an assay to measure the chemokine, marker, or receptor). The assessing may be performed after the administration, before the first administration and/or during a course a treatment, e.g., after a first, second, third, fourth or later administration, or periodically over a course of treatment, e.g., once a month, or once every 3 months. In one embodiment, the method includes assessing the subject prior to treatment or first administration and using the results of the assessment to select a subject for treatment. In certain embodiments, the method also includes modifying the administering step (e.g., stopping the administration, increasing or decreasing the periodicity of administration, increasing or decreasing the dose of the neuromodulating agent) based on the results of the assessment. For example, in embodiments where increasing a parameter of immune response described herein is desired (e.g., cancer-related embodiments where, e.g., an increase in Th2 cells is desired), the method includes stopping the administration if a marker of Th2 cells is not increased at least 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50% or more; or the method includes increasing the periodicity of administration if the marker of Th2 cells is not increased at least 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50% or more; or the method includes increasing the dose of the neuromodulating agent if the marker of Th2 cells is not increased at least 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50% or more. For example, in embodiments where decreasing a parameter of immune response described herein is desired (e.g., embodiments where a decrease in Th2 cells is desired), the method includes stopping the administration if a marker of Th2 cells is not decreased at least 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50% or more; or the method includes increasing the periodicity of administration if the marker of Th2 cells is not decreased at least 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% or more; or the method includes increasing the dose of the neuromodulating agent if the marker of Th2 cells is not decreased at least 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% or more.

In certain embodiments, immune effects (e.g., immune cell activities) are modulated in a subject (e.g., a subject having a cancer or inflammatory or autoimmune condition) or in a cultured cell by at least 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, compared to before an administration, e.g., of a dosing regimen, of a neuromodulating agent such as those described herein. In certain embodiments, the immune effects are modulated in the subject or a cultured cell between 5-20%, between 5-50%, between 10-50%, between 20-80%, between 20-70%, between 50-100%, between 100-500%. The immune effects described herein may be assessed by standard methods:

The neuromodulating agents described herein are administered in an amount (e.g., an effective amount) and for a time sufficient to effect one of the outcomes described above. The neuromodulating agent may be administered once or more than once. The neuromodulating agent may be administered once daily, twice daily, three times daily, once every two days, once weekly, twice weekly, three times weekly, once biweekly, once monthly, once bimonthly, twice a year, or once yearly. Treatment may be discrete (e.g., an injection) or continuous (e.g., treatment via an implant or infusion pump). Subjects may be evaluated for treatment efficacy 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months or more following administration of a neuromodulating agent depending on the neuromodulating agent and route of administration used for treatment. Depending on the outcome of the evaluation, treatment may be continued or ceased, treatment frequency or dosage may change, or the patient may be treated with a different neuromodulating agent. Subjects may be treated for a discrete period of time (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12 months) or until the disease or condition is alleviated, or treatment may be chronic depending on the severity and nature of the disease or condition being treated.

Kits

The invention also features a kit comprising (a) a unit dose described herein, and (b) instructions for administering the unit dose to treat cancer.

EXAMPLES

The following examples are provided to further illustrate some embodiments of the present invention, but are not intended to limit the scope of the invention; it will be understood by their exemplary nature that other procedures, methodologies, or techniques known to those skilled in the art may alternatively be used.

Example 1—Screening Method for Serotonin Receptor Binders

High throughput methods for identifying compounds from libraries that bind to a target molecule have been described previously, see e.g., Janzen and Bernasconi (Eds.), High Throughput Screening: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology), Humana Press 2009. In brief, to identify compounds that bind to the serotonin receptor 5HT2C the following screening assay is performed:

Cell Culture & Membrane (Target Protein) Preparation:

AV12 cells are stably transfected with a eukaryotic expression vector containing the coding region for the human 5HT2C receptor (see e.g., Lucaites, V. L., et al., (1996) Life Sci. 59(13), 1081-1095). To prepare membrane protein preparations, using the technique of Bosworth and Towers, Nature 341, 167, 1989, cells are grown to a cell density of 2-3×10⁶ cells/mL, and 15 L are harvested on a daily basis by centrifugation, washed in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), and stored as frozen cell pastes at −80° C. To loosen the frozen cell paste, 30 mL of 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.4, at ambient temperature are added to 7.5 grams of pellet. The cell slurry is homogenized on ice in a 55-mL glass/teflon dounce, transferred to a 250-mL conical tube that is then filled to the neck with buffer, mixed, and centrifuged in a table top centrifuge at 200 g (1060 RPM, GH-3.7 rotor) at 4° C. for 15 min. The supernatant is collected and saved on ice. The pellet is resuspended and subjected to the homogenization and centrifugation procedure just described. The 200 g supernatant is again collected and combined with the first supernatant stored on ice. The combined supernatants are then centrifuged at 14,250 rpm in a Sorvall RC5 centrifuge (GSA SLA-1500 rotor) for 50 min at 4° C. The supernatant is gently removed and discarded, and the remaining membrane pellet is resuspended using the dounce homogenizer. The membrane protein concentration is determined (BCA kit) and aliquots of the membrane preparation are quick frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at −80° C. The average yield is 1.2% of starting weight.

SPA-Format Receptor-Binding Assay:

Twenty microliter of test compound, unlabeled 5-HT control, or assay buffer is added to each well of a 96-well microtiter plate. Fifty microliter of 15-nM [3H]-5HT ligand (5-Hydroxy(3H)tryptamine trifluoroacetate (Code TRK1006 Amersham) at a final concentration of 5 nM/well) is then added to the wells followed by 80 μL (20 ug) of 5HT2C membranes as prepared above and the plates are shaken for 1 min. After a 30-min incubation at room temperature, 0.5 mg of Wheat Germ Agglutinin (WGA)-SPA beads (Amersham biotech) are added, plates are mixed by shaking every 30 min for 2 h and then counted in a MicroBeta Scintillation Counter (Perkin Elemer Wallac). The absence of binding of labeled 5HT ligand in a sample indicates that the test compound has successfully bound the target receptor. Test compounds that bind target receptor with greater than 100 nM EC50 (p<0.05 for at least 3 replicates) are selected for further testing.

Example 2—Dose Finding Study for Neuromodulator Candidate

A lead candidate for treatment of a solid cancer is identified by the screening method of Example 1. Based on preclinical data from in vitro and in vivo testing of the identified lead compound, it is determined that 120 mg is a safe starting dose in humans.

A ‘3+3’ design of incremental escalation of dose in a cohort of subjects is employed to identify a Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) of the lead candidate. Dose escalation is determined using a Fibonacci sequence, whereby an additional 100% of the original dose is administered for the second time, 67% of the second dose for the third time, and so on, until the MTD is reached.

Three patients are given 120 mg of the identified lead compound. If none of the three patients report any dose limiting toxicity (DLT) of this first dose, then the dose is escalated for the next cohort of 3 subjects. If within any one particular cohort one of the patients reports a DLT, the study at that dose is repeated. If two of the patients report DLT, this dose is then regarded as the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD).

Example 3—T Cell Activation in Culture

A high throughput antigen recall assay is used to confirm that the agents identified as described in Example 1 or Example 2 activate T cells. Determining impaired T-cell function by culturing human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) in vitro with recall antigens has been described (see e.g., Stone et al, Clin. Immunol. 131:41, 2009). In brief, the following procedure is used for the detection of the modulation of interferon gamma secretion from T cells treated with a compound of interest:

-   -   Plates (1,536 wells) are coated with 5 μl of the first         anti-gamma interferon (anti-IFN-γ) antibody at 1 μg/ml in PBS.         After overnight incubation at 4° C., the plates are washed twice         with PBS and saturated with 10 μl PBS-1% human serum albumin         (20% solution; Kedrion, Lucca, Italy) at room temperature (RT)         for 1 h. After saturation, the plates are washed twice with 13         μl Hanks' balanced salt solution and received 4 μl of complete         medium.     -   CMV antigen is dispensed with predefined patterns in 96-well         master plates and transferred into 1,536-well plates using the         Hydra II liquid handler. One microliter of 10× antigen solution         is dispensed into the wells that already contain 4 μl of         complete medium. The plates are sealed with a plastic membrane         and frozen at −80° C., ready for use.     -   PBMCs obtained from heparinized peripheral blood of CMV-positive         donors by the conventional Ficoll gradient are brought to         2×10{circumflex over ( )}6 cells/ml in complete medium and         automatically dispensed into thawed plates at 5 μl per well. The         plates are incubated for 2 days in a 5% CO2 atmosphere.     -   During the culture, the agent of interest identified as         described in Example 1 or Example 2 is administered at various         concentrations to the cells in culture.     -   At the end of the culture, supernatants or cells can be         collected for further experiments. After washing twice with         PBS-Tween 20 0.05%, the plates are spun upside down on filter         paper at 500×g for 2 min for complete removal of washing buffer.         Then, the wells receive 5 μl biotinylated antibody at 1 μg/ml         for 1 h. After washing twice with PBS-Tween and three times with         PBS and drying by centrifugation, the wells receive 5 μl         alkaline phosphatase-streptavidin at 1 μg/ml. After being         incubated at room temperature, the plates are washed as         described in the previous step and the wells receive 10 μl         p-nitrophenylphosphate. After a 1-h incubation at RT, the plates         are scanned on a Victor 3V (Perkin-Elmer). Results are shown as         the optical density at 405 nm×1,000 or as picograms/milliliter         of cytokine.

Wells in which the compound of interest induces an amount of interferon gamma as measured by optical density that is greater than 2-fold higher than the unstimulated cell control are identified as being able to induce T cell activation.

Example 4—Identification of Novel Neurobiological Correlations with Immune Disease

To identify novel correlations of neurobiological signaling molecules and immune cells, a list of neurotransmitter and neuropeptide genes and pathways was generated using published literature and UniProt (see Table 1). These genes and pathways were used as inputs to publicly available immune cell databases (e.g., RCAI RefDIC, Reference Database of Immune Cells). Through the bioinformatics analysis, novel correlations were found of overexpression by at least two-fold of certain neurobiological signaling genes of interest in certain individual immune cells. Table 13 lists the neurobiological signaling molecules (column 1) that are targets for therapeutic intervention for immune disorders or conditions through activity on the correlated immune cells (column 2).

TABLE 13 IMMUNE CELL CORRELATIONS Gene Immune Cell Accession Number ADRA2C Dendritic Cells P18825 ADRB1 Myeloid Cells P08588 ADRB1 Monocytes P08588 ADRB2 B Cells P07550 ADRB2 T Cells P07550 ADRB2 Myeloid Cells P07550 ADRB2 Monocytes P07550 ADRBK1 Dendritic Cells P25098 ADRBK1 T Cells P25098 ADRBK1 Myeloid Cells P25098 ADRBK1 Monocytes P25098 ADRBK2 Dendritic Cells P35626 ADRBK2 B Cells P35626 ADRBK2 T Cells P35626 ADRBK2 Myeloid Cells P35626 ADRBK2 Monocytes P35626 C4orf48 Dendritic Cells Q5BLP8 C4orf48 B Cells Q5BLP8 C4orf48 T Cells Q5BLP8 CALCRL Dendritic Cells Q16602 CALCRL Myeloid Cells Q16602 CALCRL Monocytes Q16602 CALCRL Myeloid Cells Q16602 CALCRL Monocytes Q16602 CHRNA2 Dendritic Cells Q15822 CHRNA2 B Cells Q15822 CHRNA2 T Cells Q15822 CHRNA2 Myeloid Cells Q15822 CHRNA7 Dendritic Cells P36544 CHRNA7 T Cells P36544 CHRNA7 Myeloid Cells P36544 CHRNA7 Monocytes P36544 CHRNB2 Dendritic Cells P17787 CHRNB2 B Cells P17787 CHRNB2 T Cells P17787 CHRNB2 Myeloid Cells P17787 CHRNB2 Monocytes P17787 CRH Dendritic Cells Q13324 CYSLTR2 Monocytes Q9NS75 HTR2B Dendritic Cells P41595 HTR2B Myeloid Cells P41595 HTR3A B Cells P46098 HTR4 Monocytes Q13639 NMB Dendritic Cells P08949 NMB B Cells P08949 NMB T Cells P08949 NPPA Dendritic Cells P01160 NXPH3 Dendritic Cells O95157 PMCH Myeloid Cells P20382 PNOC B Cells Q13519 UCN Dendritic Cells Q96RP3 UCN B Cells Q96RP3 UCN T Cells Q96RP3 UCN Myeloid Cells Q96RP3

Example 5—T Cell Activation and Cytokine Secretion Assay

Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were isolated from whole blood by ficoll density separation. Briefly, blood was diluted 1:2 with 0.5 mM EDTA solution in PBS, loaded onto a Ficoll-filled Leucosep tube (Greiner Bio-One), and centrifuged for 20 minutes at 1000×g. After centrifugation, the leukocyte/PBMC layer on top of the separation medium was collected and sequentially washed three times with 0.5 mM EDTA solution in PBS.

T cells were isolated from PBMCs using magnetic bead-based separation following vendor specification, e.g., Biolegend MojoSort Human CD4/CD8 Naïve T Cell Isolation Kit protocol. In brief, the PBMCs were labeled with biotinylated antibodies against cell surface receptors for cells not in the population of interest. The labeled cells are then captured by streptavidin-coated magnetic beads and removed by magnetic incubation. The uncaptured cells that flow through the magnetic separation are predominantly comprised of the population of interest, in this instance CD3+ T cells. T cells were stained with a 5 μM solution of Tag-it Violet™ dye (BioLegend) for 20 minutes protected from light. The stain was quenched by incubating the cells in cell culture medium containing 10% FBS (complete media).

Stained cells were plated on tissue culture plates and sub-maximally activated with concanavalin A (con A) added to the culture medium. Cells were plated at 0.1×10⁶ cells well. Dopamine, dopaminergic agonist quinpirole, adrenergic agonist isoproterenol, adrenergic antagonist propranolol, and neuropeptide Y were added at a range of concentrations between 0.1 nM and 0.1 mM. Cells were collected at 24, 48, and 72 hrs.

Supernatants were collected at 24, 48, and 72 hrs and cytokine secretion was analyzed by flow cytometry using a LEGENDplex assay (BioLegend). In brief, following manufacturer's protocol, beads pre-coated with antibodies specific to various cytokines were incubated with cell supernatant. Cytokines in the supernatant are confirmed by adding a second detection antibody in a classic “sandwich ELISA” format. The beads were then stained and the captured cytokine composition assessed by flow cytometry.

We found that dopamine stimulation at low sub-nanomolar concentrations induced an increase in the production of the pro-inflammatory cytokines IFNγ, IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-13 at 72 hours post treatment (FIGS. 1A-1C and FIGS. 2A-2B). These data suggest that stimulation of T cells with dopamine in vivo may increase production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, which can be important for promoting inflammation in the context of cancer, in which case one might want to activate T cells to treat the disease.

We found that stimulation of T cells with dopamine and the synthetic dopaminergic agonist, quinpirole, induced an increase in the production of the pro-survival cytokine IL-2. For dopamine the effect is observed at 24- and 48-hours post stimulation with nanomolar concentrations of the neurotransmitter. For quinpirole, the effect was seen at all time points tested, again at nanomolar concentrations of the agonist (FIGS. 3A-3B). The differences in the kinetics may be due to the differences in lability or affinity of the agents. These data suggest that stimulation of T cells with dopamine in vivo may increase proliferation of T cells, which can be a useful treatment in the context of immunotherapy for cancer by increasing the total number of T cells in the patient (analogous to IL-2 cytokine therapy). Alternatively, the data suggest that inhibition of dopaminergic signaling, for example with a small molecule or antibody antagonist, may prevent the dopamine-mediated proliferation of T cells.

We observed that, in contrast to the dopamine data, stimulation of T cells with the adrenergic agonist isoproterenol induced a decrease in the amount of pro-inflammatory cytokines IFNγ, TNFα, and IL-10 in two different donors at multiple time points (FIG. 4, FIG. 5, and FIGS. 6A-6C). These data suggest that stimulation of T cells via agonism of adrenergic receptors in vivo may increase production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, which can be important for promoting inflammation in the context of cancer, in which case one might want to activate T cells to treat the disease. Alternatively, these data also suggest that inhibition of adrenergic signaling, for example with a small molecule adrenergic antagonist or with an antibody against the adrenergic receptor, may prevent the activation of T cells.

We found that stimulation of T cells with neuropeptide Y induced an increase in the cytokine IL-4 at sub-nanomolar concentrations at 48 hours post-treatment (FIG. 7). These data suggest that intervention along the neuropeptide Y signaling axis in vivo can have a useful therapeutic impact. Physiologically, Th2 cytokines are known to mediate host defense against parasites but they can also trigger disease if their activities are dysregulated. For example, inhibition of neuropeptide Y, for example with an antibody against the neuropeptide Y receptor or an inert peptide mimetic, could be a therapeutic intervention for IL-4 mediated diseases, including cancer.

Example 6—Macrophage Activation and Cytokine Secretion Assay

Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were isolated from whole blood by ficoll density separation. Briefly, blood was diluted 1:2 with 0.5 mM EDTA solution in PBS, loaded onto a Ficoll-filled Leucosep tube (Greiner Bio-One), and centrifuged for 20 minutes at 1000×g. After centrifugation, the leukocyte/PBMC layer was collected and sequentially washed three times with 0.5 mM EDTA solution in PBS.

Monocytes (CD14+) were isolated from PBMCs using magnetic bead-based separation following vendor specifications, e.g., Biolegend MojoSort Human CD14 Selection Kit protocol. In brief, PBMCs were labeled with biotinylated antibodies against cell surface receptors for cells not in the population of interest. The labeled cells are then captured by streptavidin-coated magnetic beads and removed by magnetic incubation. The uncaptured cells that flow through the magnetic separation are predominantly comprised of the population of interest, in this case CD14+ monocytes.

Monocytes were differentiated into macrophages by culturing in DMEM complete medium containing 10% FBS for seven days in the presence of 40 ng/mL human M-CSF. Media was changed on day 1 and day 4. On Day 4, macrophages were polarized to various subtypes as follows: M0—incubated with 40 ng/mL M-CSF; M1—cultured with 40 ng/mL M-CSF, 20 ng/mL IFNγ, and 50 ng/mL LPS; M2—incubated with 40 ng/mL M-CSF, 20 ng/mL 1L4, 20 ng/mL IL10, and 20 ng/mL TFGB. On day 7, cells were harvested by scraping them from the tissue culture plates and transferring them to 96-well plates. Macrophages were incubated with the neuropeptide CGRP and the small molecule beta adrenergic receptor agonist isoproterenol at varying dilutions from 10 μM to 1 nM.

Supernatants were collected at 24, 48, and 72 hrs and cytokine secretion was analyzed by flow cytometry using a LEGENDplex assay (BioLegend). In brief, following manufacturer's protocol, beads that are pre-coated with antibodies specific to various cytokines were incubated with cell supernatant. Cytokines in the supernatant were confirmed by adding a second detection antibody in a classic “sandwich ELISA” format. The beads were then stained and the captured cytokine composition assessed by flow cytometry.

M1 macrophage polarization is defined as increase in production of IL-12, TNF, IL-6, IL-8, IL-1B, MCP-1 and CCL2. Additionally, markers of M1 polarization that can be detected by RNA include Nos2. M2 polarization is defined as increase in IL-10 and/or a decrease in the M1 cytokines listed above. Additionally, markers of M2 polarization that can be detected by RNA include Arg1, IDO, PF4, CCL24, IL10, and IL4Ralpha.

In this assay, macrophages incubated with the beta adrenergic receptor agonist isoproterenol are polarized toward an M2 phenotype as measured by an increase in the transcripts for Arg1 and IL-10 and a decrease in the transcript of NOS2. Conversely, macrophages stimulated with neuropeptide CGRP are polarized toward an M1 phenotype, as measured by increased secretion of TNFα.

This surprising result indicates that macrophages can be polarized toward an M1 or M2 phenotype strictly via stimulation of neurotransmitter or neuropeptide pathways. M2 polarized macrophages are anti-inflammatory and induce a broadly suppressive immunological cascade, including cytokine secretion, reduced phagocytic activity, and reduced antigen presentation. M1 polarized macrophages are pro-inflammatory and induce a broadly pro-inflammatory immunological cascade, including cytokine secretion, increased phagocytic activity, and increased antigen presentation. As such, this surprising finding indicates that substances that modulate these neurotransmitter/neuropeptide pathways could be used to treat patients with a range of immunological and inflammatory disorders, for example cancer, fibrosis, allergy, allergic dermatitis, pancreatitis, ulcerative colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, Hirschsprung's disease, NASH, fatty liver disease, atherosclerosis, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, hemophagocytic syndrome, myasthenia gravis, glomerulonephritis, and other diseases and conditions in which macrophage activation and polarization plays a role.

Example 7—Lymph Node Remodeling by Hock Injection of Dopamine Agonist

C57BL/6J mice were injected in each hock with 50 μL of the immunostimulant CpG ODN (0.1 nmol), 504 dopaminergic agonist quinpirole (0.1 nmol) or with 254 dopaminergic antagonist (Haloperidol −48.5 nmol) followed by 25 μL quinpirole (0.1 nmol). 24 hours after hock injection, brachial lymph nodes (LN) were harvested in culture medium (RPMI+10% FBS). LNs were transferred to 24-well tissue culture plates containing 0.5 mL LN digestion buffer (RPMI, 2% FBS, collagenase D (3.3 mg/mL), and DNAse I (40 ug/mL)). LN capsules were manually opened with two syringe (26G) needles and the LNs were incubated in digestion buffer for 15 minutes. Digested LNs were filtered with a 40 μNA cell strainer and tissues were smashed with the plunger of a 5 mL syringe. Collected cells were washed in culture medium and plated for assays.

Total number of viable cells were assessed by staining with viability dye eFluor 780 (eBioscience). Surface markers of various immune cell subsets were analyzed by staining the cells with antibodies for cell identity (CD3, CD4, CD8, CD19), for the inflammatory marker CD69, and the migratory marker CCR7. The cells were then assayed by flow cytometry.

As can be seen in FIGS. 8A-8D, treatment with dopamine agonist increased the number of migratory phenotype CCR7+ T cells in the lymph node, which was inhibited by pre-treatment with a dopaminergic antagonist. In contrast, treatment with CpG ODN increased the number of inflammatory CD69+ T cells but had no effect on CCR7 expression.

CCR7 is one of the predominant chemokine receptors responsible for T cell and other immune cell homing to secondary lymphoid organs, tumors, and sites of inflammation. As such, the unexpected result described here could be useful in the treatment of multiple diseases in which immune cell migration is pathogenic or therapeutic, for example cancers in which the recruitment of immune cells to a tumor would provide therapeutic benefit.

Example 8—NK Cell Activation to Enhance ADCC

Primary Natural Killer (NK) cells are isolated from human peripheral blood using a magnetic bead-based separation kit that negatively selects NK cells by sequestering other defined cell types (T, B, monocytes, etc.).

Isolated NK cells are incubated with a target cell line, for example a Her2 expressing cancer cell line that has been pre-coated with trastuzumab, an anti-Her2 antibody, at a range of target-to-effector cell ratios. Following antibody-dependent cell cytotoxicity (ADCC)—antibody-mediated killing of the target cells by the NK cells, the number of surviving target cells is assessed by a fluorescent viability stain.

NK cells treated with the beta adrenergic agonist metaproterenol induce significantly less ADCC than NK cells that have been pre-treated with a beta adrenergic antagonist (nadolol or propranolol) prior to exposure to the agonist. Thus, adrenergic signaling is sufficient to reduce the cytotoxic capacity of NK cells. Control of the cytotoxicity of NK cells has implications for cancer immunotherapy where activation of NK cell cytotoxicity can increase the response to treatment.

Example 9—T Cell-Targeted Dopamine Agonism to Treat Cancer

According to the methods disclosed herein, a physician of skill in the art can treat a patient, such as a human patient with a solid tumor that is a candidate for immunotherapy (e.g., the patient has substantial T cell infiltration into the tumor as assessed by histological analysis of a biopsy), so as to inhibit solid tumor growth or reduce tumor volume. The method of treatment can include diagnosing or identifying a patient as a candidate for immunotherapy based on biopsy results conducted by the physician or a skilled laboratory technician. To treat the patient, a physician of skill in the art can administer to the human patient a neuromodulating agent that increases dopaminergic signaling (e.g., a dopamine agonist, such as dopamine, dopexamine, quinpirole, bromocriptine, lisuride, pergolide, cabergoline, quinagolide, apomorphine, ropinirole, pramipexole, or piribedil). The agent can be conjugated to an antibody that recognizes a protein expressed by a T cell (e.g., CD2, CD3, CD4, CD5, CD6, CD8, CD45, PD-1, CTLA-4, or TCR) and administered systemically (e.g., intravenous injection) or locally (e.g., intratumoral injection) to inhibit tumor growth. The neuromodulating agent-antibody conjugate is administered in a therapeutically effective amount, such as from 10 μg/kg to 500 mg/kg (e.g., 10 μg/kg, 100 μg/kg, 500 μg/kg, 1 mg/kg, 10 mg/kg, 50 mg/kg, 100 mg/kg, 250 mg/kg, or 500 mg/kg). In some embodiments, the neuromodulating agent-antibody conjugate is administered bimonthly, once a month, once every two weeks, or at least once a week or more (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 times a week or more).

The antibody binds to the patient's T cells, and the attached neuromodulating agent (e.g., dopamine agonist) activates the patient's T cells (e.g., increases T cell cytokine production of one or more pro-inflammatory or proliferative cytokines). The neuromodulating agent-antibody conjugate is administered to the patient in an amount sufficient to decrease tumor burden, increase progression free survival, or increase pro-inflammatory cytokine levels by 10% or more (e.g., 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or more). Cytokine production can be assessed by collecting a blood sample from the patient and evaluating one or more pro-inflammatory cytokines (e.g., IL-2, IFNγ, IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-13). The blood sample can be collected one day or more after administration of the neuromodulating agent-antibody conjugate (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 14, 21, or 30 or more days after administration). The blood sample can be compared to a blood sample collected from the patient prior to administration of the neuromodulating agent-antibody conjugate (e.g., a blood sample collected earlier the same day, 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks, one month or more before administration of the neuromodulating agent-antibody conjugate). Tumor burden can be assessed using standard imaging methods (e.g., digital radiography, positron emission tomography (PET) scan, computed tomography (CT) scan, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan). Images from before and after administration of the neuromodulating agent-antibody conjugate can be compared to evaluate the efficacy of the treatment. A finding of a reduction in the total number of tumors, number of primary tumors, volume of tumors, positive lymph nodes, or distant metastases, or an increase in progression free survival indicates that the neuromodulating agent-antibody conjugate has successfully treated the cancer.

Example 10—Adrenergic Antagonism to Activate T Cells to Target Tumors

According to the methods disclosed herein, a physician of skill in the art can treat a patient, such as a human patient with a solid tumor that is a candidate for immunotherapy (e.g., the patient has substantial T cell infiltration into the tumor as assessed by histological analysis of a biopsy), so as to inhibit solid tumor growth or reduce tumor volume. The method of treatment can include diagnosing or identifying a patient as a candidate for immunotherapy based on biopsy results conducted by the physician or a skilled laboratory technician. To treat the patient, a physician of skill in the art can administer to the human patient a neuromodulating agent that decreases beta adrenergic signaling (e.g., a beta adrenergic antagonist, such as propanalol, acebutol, atenolol, metoprolol, and naldol). The beta adrenergic antagonist can be administered at a dose lower or higher than that administered to a patient with high blood pressure or a cardiac condition, or it can be chemically modified (e.g., PEGylated) or delivered in a particulate formulation (e.g., a nanoparticle or microparticle) so that it does not cross the blood brain barrier. The formulation of the beta adrenergic antagonist is derived such that intravenous administration results in accumulation at the site of the tumor, based on the leakiness and enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect of tumor vasculature. A microparticulate formulation of propanalol is administered parenterally (e.g., intravenous injection) to inhibit tumor growth. The microparticulate formulation of propanalol is administered in a therapeutically effective amount, such as from 10 μg/kg to 500 mg/kg (e.g., 10 μg/kg, 100 μg/kg, 500 μg/kg, 1 mg/kg, 10 mg/kg, 50 mg/kg, 100 mg/kg, 250 mg/kg, or 500 mg/kg). In some embodiments, the microparticulate formulation of propanalol is administered bimonthly, once a month, once every two weeks, or at least once a week or more (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 times a week or more).

The beta adrenergic antagonist (e.g., propanalol) activates the patient's T cells (e.g., increases T cell cytokine production of one or more pro-inflammatory cytokines) and reverses T cell immune suppression. The beta adrenergic antagonist is administered to the patient in an amount sufficient to decrease tumor burden, increase progression free survival, or increase pro-inflammatory cytokine levels by 10% or more (e.g., 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or more). Cytokine production can be assessed by collecting a blood sample from the patient and evaluating one or more pro-inflammatory cytokines (e.g., IFNγ, TNFα, or IL-10). The blood sample can be collected one day or more after administration of the beta adrenergic antagonist (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 14, 21, or 30 or more days after administration). The blood sample can be compared to a blood sample collected from the patient prior to administration of the beta adrenergic antagonist (e.g., a blood sample collected earlier the same day, 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks, one month or more before administration of the beta adrenergic antagonist). Tumor burden can be assessed using standard imaging methods (e.g., digital radiography, positron emission tomography (PET) scan, computed tomography (CT) scan, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan). Images from before and after administration of the beta adrenergic antagonist can be compared to evaluate the efficacy of the treatment. A finding of a reduction in the total number of tumors, number of primary tumors, volume of tumors, positive lymph nodes, or distant metastases, or an increase in progression free survival or pro-inflammatory biomarkers of immune activation indicates that the beta adrenergic antagonist has successfully improved the patient's condition and treated the cancer.

Example 11—M1 Macrophage Polarization for Tumor Immunotherapy

According to the methods disclosed herein, a physician of skill in the art can treat a patient, such as a human patient with a solid tumor that is non-responsive to immunotherapy, so as to inhibit solid tumor growth or reduce tumor volume. A tumor can be considered non-responsive to immunotherapy if a prior course of treatment with a checkpoint inhibitor antibody, e.g., anti-PDL1, was unsuccessful, or if the tumor is categorized as “cold”, “immune excluded”, or “immune desert” based on the absence of active CD8 lymphocytes within the tumor or the presence of M0/M2 monocytes, macrophages, or myeloid-derived suppressor cells as assessed by histology or transcriptional profiling of a tumor biopsy. The method of treatment can include diagnosing or identifying a patient as having a solid tumor that is non-responsive to immunotherapy based on medical history or biopsy results conducted by the physician or a skilled laboratory technician.

To treat the patient, a physician of skill in the art can administer to the human patient a neuromodulating agent that increases macrophage polarization toward an M1 phenotype (e.g., an agent that increases macrophage antigen presentation and production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and reverses local immune suppression). The neuromodulating agent can be an agent that increases neuropeptide signaling, such as CGRP or an analog thereof. CGRP is administered locally to the tumor (e.g., intratumoral injection) to decrease tumor growth or reduce tumor burden. CGRP is administered in a therapeutically effective amount, such as from 10 μg/kg to 500 mg/kg (e.g., 10 μg/kg, 100 μg/kg, 500 μg/kg, 1 mg/kg, 10 mg/kg, 50 mg/kg, 100 mg/kg, 250 mg/kg, or 500 mg/kg). In some embodiments, CGRP is administered bimonthly, once a month, once every two weeks, or at least once a week or more (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 times a week or more).

CGRP increases macrophage polarization toward an M1 phenotype (e.g., increases macrophage antigen presentation and production of pro-inflammatory cytokines). CGRP is administered to the patient in an amount sufficient to decrease tumor burden, slow tumor growth, increase M1 polarization by 10% or more (e.g., 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or more). Macrophage polarization can be assessed by collecting a tumor biopsy sample from the patient and evaluating one or more pro-inflammatory cytokines (e.g., IL-12, TNF, IL-6, IL-8, IL-1B, MCP-1 and CCL2) or antigen presentation markers (e.g., CD11c, CD11b, HLA molecules (e.g., MHC-II), CD40, B7, CD80 or CD86) using flow cytometry or immunohistochemistry. The biopsy can be collected one day or more after administration of CGRP (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 14, 21, 30, or 60 or more days after administration). The biopsy can be compared to a biopsy collected from the patient prior to administration of CGRP (e.g., a biopsy collected earlier the same day, 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks, one month or more before administration of CGRP). Tumor burden and tumor growth can be assessed using standard imaging methods (e.g., digital radiography, positron emission tomography (PET) scan, computed tomography (CT) scan, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan). Images from before and after administration of CGRP can be compared to evaluate the efficacy of the treatment. A finding of a reduction in the total number of tumors, number of primary tumors, volume of tumors, growth of tumors, positive lymph nodes, or distant metastases, or an increase in progression free survival or markers of M1 polarization indicates that CGRP has successfully improved the patient's condition and treated the cancer.

Example 12—Neuro-Activation of Immune Cells in a Lymph Node to Treat a Tumor

According to the methods disclosed herein, a physician of skill in the art can treat a patient, such as a human patient with cancer (e.g., a solid tumor), so as to inhibit tumor growth or reduce tumor volume. Before treatment, the physician diagnoses or identifies the patient has having tumor-specific lymphocytes in the draining lymph nodes as detected by a sentinel node biopsy. The presence of tumor-specific T lymphocytes in the lymph node is confirmed by ELISPOT assay following lymphocyte pulsing with tumor lysate from the patient's own tumor biopsy. To treat the patient, a physician of skill in the art can administer to the human patient a neuromodulating agent that increases the number of CCR7+ T cells in the lymph node (e.g., a dopamine agonist, such as dopamine, dopexamine, quinpirole, bromocriptine, lisuride, pergolide, cabergoline, quinagolide, apomorphine, ropinirole, pramipexole, or piribedil). The dopamine agonist (e.g., quinpirole) is administered by subcutaneous injection proximal to the tumor draining lymph node, and can be formulated in a nanoparticle smaller than 50 nm to enhance localization to the lymph node. The patient can be treated concurrently with a checkpoint inhibitor antibody, for example anti-PDL1. Quinpirole is administered in a therapeutically effective amount, such as from 10 μg/kg to 500 mg/kg (e.g., 10 μg/kg, 100 μg/kg, 500 μg/kg, 1 mg/kg, 10 mg/kg, 50 mg/kg, 100 mg/kg, 250 mg/kg, or 500 mg/kg). In some embodiments, Quinpirole is administered bimonthly, once a month, once every two weeks, or at least once a week or more (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 times a week or more).

The combination of the dopamine agonist and checkpoint inhibitor increases CCR7+ T cell migration from the draining lymph node to the tumor and activates T cells (e.g., increases T cell pro-inflammatory cytokine production), thus leading to a strong immune response. Quinpirole is administered to the patient in an amount sufficient to decrease tumor burden, slow tumor growth, or increase CCR7+ T cell numbers in the lymph node or tumor by 10% or more (e.g., 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or more). CCR7+ T cell numbers can be assessed by collecting a tumor biopsy or lymph node biopsy from the patient and evaluating CCR7+ T cells using flow cytometry. The biopsy can be collected one day or more after administration of CGRP (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 14, 21, 30, or 60 or more days after administration). The biopsy can be compared to a biopsy collected from the patient prior to administration of Quinpirole (e.g., a biopsy collected earlier the same day, 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks, one month or more before administration of Quinpirole). Tumor burden and tumor growth can be assessed using standard imaging methods (e.g., digital radiography, positron emission tomography (PET) scan, computed tomography (CT) scan, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan). Images from before and after administration of Quinpirole e can be compared to evaluate the efficacy of the treatment. A finding of a reduction in the total number of tumors, number of primary tumors, volume of tumors, growth of tumors, positive lymph nodes, or distant metastases, or an increase in progression free survival or CCR7+ T cells in the tumor or tumor draining lymph node indicates that Quinpirole has successfully improved the patient's condition and treated the cancer.

Example 13—NK Cell Activation to Treat a Solid Tumor

According to the methods disclosed herein, a physician of skill in the art can treat a patient, such as a human patient with cancer (e.g., a solid tumor), so as to inhibit tumor growth or reduce tumor volume. Before treatment, the physician diagnoses or identifies the patient has having a tumor expressing a particular antigen that can be targeted using a therapeutic antibody (e.g., Her2-positive breast cancer). To treat the patient, a physician of skill in the art can administer to the human patient a neuromodulating agent that increases NK cell activity (e.g., restores lytic function to NK cells). The neuromodulating agent can be a beta adrenergic antagonist, such as propanalol, acebutol, atenolol, metoprolol, and naldol. The beta adrenergic antagonist (e.g., propanalol) can administered by orally at a dose lower or higher than that administered to a patient with high blood pressure or a cardiac condition, and administered in combination with an antibody that targets the antigen expressed by the tumor (e.g., trastuzumab). Propanalol is administered in a therapeutically effective amount, such as from 10 μg/kg to 500 mg/kg (e.g., 10 μg/kg, 100 μg/kg, 500 μg/kg, 1 mg/kg, 10 mg/kg, 50 mg/kg, 100 mg/kg, 250 mg/kg, or 500 mg/kg). In some embodiments, propanalol is administered bimonthly, once a month, once every two weeks, or at least once a week or more (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 times a week or more).

The beta adrenergic antagonist increases NK cell activity (e.g., increases NK cell cytotoxicity, such as ADCC). Propanalol is administered to the patient in an amount sufficient to decrease tumor burden, slow tumor growth, or increase NK cell activity by 10% or more (e.g., 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or more). NK cell activity can be assessed by collecting a tumor biopsy from the patient and evaluating one or more markers of NK cell activation (e.g., CD117, NKp46, CD94, CD56, CD16, KIR, CD69, HLA-DR, CD38, KLRG1, or TIA-1) using flow cytometry or immunohistochemistry. The biopsy can be collected one day or more after administration of propanalol (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 14, 21, 30, or 60 or more days after administration). The biopsy can be compared to a biopsy collected from the patient prior to administration of propanalol (e.g., a biopsy collected earlier the same day, 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks, one month or more before administration of propanolol). Tumor burden and tumor growth can be assessed using standard imaging methods (e.g., digital radiography, positron emission tomography (PET) scan, computed tomography (CT) scan, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan). Images from before and after administration of propanolol can be compared to evaluate the efficacy of the treatment. A finding of a reduction in the total number of tumors, number of primary tumors, volume of tumors, growth of tumors, positive lymph nodes, or distant metastases, or an increase in progression free survival or NK cell activation in the tumor indicates that propanalol has successfully improved the patient's condition and treated the cancer.

Example 14—Neuromodulation to Activate the Immune System and Inhibit a Tumor Cell

According to the methods disclosed herein, a physician of skill in the art can treat a patient, such as a human patient with a solid tumor that is a candidate for immunotherapy (e.g., the patient has substantial T cell infiltration into the tumor as assessed by histological analysis of a biopsy), so as to inhibit solid tumor growth or reduce tumor volume. The method of treatment can include diagnosing or identifying a patient as a candidate for immunotherapy based on biopsy results conducted by the physician or a skilled laboratory technician. To treat the patient, a physician of skill in the art can administer to the human patient a neuromodulating agent that decreases beta adrenergic signaling (e.g., a beta adrenergic antagonist, such as propanalol, acebutol, atenolol, metoprolol, and naldol). The beta adrenergic antagonist can be administered at a dose lower or higher than that administered to a patient with high blood pressure or a cardiac condition. Propanalol is administered parenterally (e.g., intratumorally) to inhibit tumor growth. Propanalol is administered in a therapeutically effective amount, such as from 10 μg/kg to 500 mg/kg (e.g., 10 μg/kg, 100 μg/kg, 500 μg/kg, 1 mg/kg, 10 mg/kg, 50 mg/kg, 100 mg/kg, 250 mg/kg, or 500 mg/kg). In some embodiments, propanalol is administered bimonthly, once a month, once every two weeks, or at least once a week or more (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 times a week or more).

The beta adrenergic antagonist (e.g., propanalol) increases macrophage polarization toward an M1 phenotype and decreases tumor growth. The beta adrenergic antagonist is administered to the patient in an amount sufficient to decrease tumor growth decrease tumor burden, increase progression free survival, or increase pro-inflammatory cytokine levels by 10% or more (e.g., 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or more). Macrophage polarization can be assessed by collecting a tumor biopsy sample from the patient and evaluating one or more pro-inflammatory cytokines (e.g., IL-12, TNF, IL-6, IL-8, IL-1B, MCP-1 and CCL2) or antigen presentation markers (e.g., CD11c, CD11b, HLA molecules (e.g., MHC-II), CD40, B7, CD80 or CD86) using flow cytometry or immunohistochemistry. The biopsy sample can be collected one day or more after administration of the beta adrenergic antagonist (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 14, 21, or 30 or more days after administration). The biopsy sample can be compared to a biopsy sample collected from the patient prior to administration of the beta adrenergic antagonist (e.g., a blood sample collected earlier the same day, 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks, one month or more before administration of the beta adrenergic antagonist). Tumor burden can be assessed using standard imaging methods (e.g., digital radiography, positron emission tomography (PET) scan, computed tomography (CT) scan, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan). Images from before and after administration of the beta adrenergic antagonist can be compared to evaluate the efficacy of the treatment. A finding of a reduction in the total number of tumors, number of primary tumors, volume of tumors, or growth of tumors, or an increase in M1 macrophage polarization indicates that the beta adrenergic antagonist has successfully activated an immune response and treated the cancer.

OTHER EMBODIMENTS

Various modifications and variations of the described invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. Although the invention has been described in connection with specific embodiments, it should be understood that the invention as claimed should not be unduly limited to such specific embodiments. Indeed, various modifications of the described modes for carrying out the invention that are obvious to those skilled in the art are intended to be within the scope of the invention.

Other embodiments are in the claims. 

1. A method comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a dopaminergic agonist in an amount effective to increase pro-inflammatory and/or pro-survival cytokine production by T cells in the subject, relative to a control.
 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the pro-inflammatory cytokines are selected from interferon gamma (IFNγ), interleukin (IL)-5, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-13.
 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the pro-survival cytokine is IL-2.
 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the dopaminergic agonist is dopamine.
 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the dopaminergic agonist is quinpirole.
 6. A method comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a neuropeptide Y receptor antagonist in an amount effective to decrease Th2 cytokine production by T cells in the subject, relative to a control.
 7. The method of claim 6, wherein the Th2 cytokine is IL-4.
 8. A method comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a beta adrenergic receptor antagonist in an amount effective to increase interleukin (IL)-10, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), and/or IFNγ production by T cells in the subject, relative to a control.
 9. The method of claim 8, wherein the beta adrenergic receptor antagonist is propranolol.
 10. A method comprising culturing human immune cells with a neuromodulating agent and measuring cytokine production by the human immune cells.
 11. The method of claim 10, wherein the human immune cells are human T cells.
 12. The method of claim 10, wherein the human immune cells are human macrophages.
 13. The method of claim 10, wherein the cytokine production is pro-inflammatory or pro-survival cytokine production.
 14. A method comprising contacting human immune cells with a neuromodulating agent in an amount effective to modulate cytokine production by the human immune cells. 